What is the interactionist theory of motivation?
INTERACTIONIST THEORIES A. COGNITIVE THEORY / GESTALT THEORY the cognitive processes include all the higher mental processes: thinking, perception, memory, reasoning, problem solving, attention, etc. Special interest in social psy. is how we encode, store, and retrieve social information. We encode or interpret information in terms of our schema (past knowledge) and in terms of the context in which the information occurs Cognitive theory emerged from Gestalt theory, a perceptual theory the major tenet of which was: “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. Experience and behavior are integrated and organized. In Social Cognition we look at how the individual views her/his world and how s/he interprets the world based on that perception.
