Cognitive Psychology

The cognitive approaches to the study of motivation come with one important thing that drive approaches did not account for, the O. Drive theorist dealt mainly with the stimulus and the response produced; cognitive theorists factored in the role of the organism that receives the stimulus. Cognitive theorists explained that it is not just acting on a whim, but rather that there is some thought process involved. Though it may be a short process, and …

…self-efficacy might not achieve so much but what can arise is the idea of not stopping until the desired outcome is achieved. Hence a person is persistent and continues to behave in certain ways until a desired outcome is achieved. Tolman leaves it up in the air in the way that if what a person expects to happen is good they will act upon that expectation, if it is bad they will not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**