Towards a Cognition-Energy-Learning Model (1)

STATE UNIVERSITY GRONINGEN - HEYMANSBULLETIN HB-91-1029-EX (first part)

Energy and Strokes:
how the quality of social relationships influences the process of learning and individual development

by

Bernard B. Maarsingh

and

Popko P. van der Molen

Presented for the fifth international conference on
Reversal Theory, June 21-25, 1991 at Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Cognition-Energy-Learning Model:
on the Bistable Organization of Motivation and its Effect on Cognitive Development.

1.1. Homeostasis versus Bi-Stability
1.2. The Bi-stable Organization of Motivation
1.3. Two Metamotivational States and Reversals
1.4. The Energy Dependent Basis of Motivation: Different Consequences on the Proximal and on the Ultimal Level
1.5. Motivational Sequences, Learning Spirals and Cognitive Areas of Experience
1.6. Cognitive Development
1.7. Summary and Conclusions