Experimental study of the relationship of intensity of motivation and the structural organization of the cognitive sphere of personality

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Abstract

We studied the influence of motivation on the structural characteristics of the organization of the cognitive function. We tested the hypothesis of the existence of a direct link between the level of motivation and degree of coherence of the structural organization of cognitive parameters in the process of solving experimental problem on a sample of 100 Russian participants using diagnostic tests of intelligence in combination with the authors’ methods of structural psychological analysis, in particular, the method of determining the structural indices intercorrelation matrices. We revealed and a direct significant (p = 0.05) correlation between the degree of motivation and the level of coherence of the individual parameters of cognitive structures. The results are interpreted in terms of information and energy interaction, as well as from the perspective of synergistic effects due to systemic organization of the cognitive sphere. The study was supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation, project № 16-18-10030.

General Information

Keywords: motivation, cognitive characteristics, structure of intelligence, degree of motivation, coherence, structural organization, synergetic effects

Journal rubric: Psychology of Motivation

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2016090406

For citation: Karpov A.V., Karpova E.V. Experimental study of the relationship of intensity of motivation and the structural organization of the cognitive sphere of personality. Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2016. Vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 59–67. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2016090406. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Anatoliy V. Karpov, Doctor of Psychology, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Head of the Department of Labor Psychology and Organiza-tional Psychology, P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4547-2848, e-mail: anvikar56@yandex.ru

E. V. Karpova, Dr. Sci. (Psychology), Associate Professor, Head of Chair of Pedagogy and Psychology of Elementary Education, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University, e-mail: evkar55@yandex.ru

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