Psychology

Sunday, March 26. 2006

Personality between Cognition and Motivation

Internet TechNote March 26, 2006
To describe a hypothesis of personality structure where the dimensions derived by factor analysis can be interpreted in dual cognitive and motivational context.

Comparing the descriptions of the four drives (4D) with the dimensions of some well known personality models reveals a more complex structure than the simple two dimensional tables shows. The novelty is to interpret in two contexts: cognition and motivation, some dimensions appear to be referenced in a cognitive manner, others in motivational manner and the remaining seem mixed or rotated between the two. Continue reading "Personality between Cognition and Motivation" »

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Faisal Kadri

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Thursday, March 16. 2006

Aging between Cognition and Motivation

Internet TechNote March 16, 2006
To explain an intuitive rationale behind linking humor type preference to post adulthood age.

Humans are considered mature and accountable usually at age 18 yet their behavior keeps developing afterwards. Post adulthood age related behavioral development cannot be attributed to cognition otherwise it would be a legal issue, e.g. a systematic factor in determining the guilt or innocence beyond adulthood. Behavioral development has to be attributed to motivation.
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Faisal Kadri

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Artificial Intelligence between Cognition and Motivaton

Internet TechNote March 16, 2006
The purpose is to present arguments that support the duality of cognition and motivation

Cognition alone cannot mimic human behavior; not only because cognition is static but also because cognition requires motivation in order to define its context.

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Faisal Kadri

in Psychology at 19:36 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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