Paul R. Pintrich was a leading figure in the field of self-regulated learning. This article discusses some of Paul’s major contributions: (a) formulating a conceptual framework for studying self-regulated learning comprising phases (forethought, planning, activation; monitoring; control; reaction, reflection) and areas for self-regulation (cognition, motivation, behavior, context); (b) emphasiz...

The introduction of this book states its purpose and paradigmatic view point as follows: " The book focuses on relations between information and computation. Information is a basic structure of the world, while computation is a process of the dynamic change of information. In order for anything to exist for an individual, the individual must get information on it, either by means of perception ...

A major issue in elementary cognition and information processinghas been whether rapidsearch of short-term memory or a visual display can terminate when a predesignated target is found or whether it must proceed until all items are examined. This study summarizes past and recent theoretical results on the ability of self-terminatingand exhaustive models topredict differences in slopes between p...

Modern advances in implicit social cognition enabled development of novel methods for examining less conscious aspects of self-worth. The use of such ‘‘implicit” measures of self-esteem is based on the premise that because they circumvent direct self-reports, they must capture more implicit, automatic components of self-evaluation. Whether self-evaluations captured via ‘‘implicit” measures actu...

A study was conducted to ascertain what the dominant self motivation is like – selfverifying or self-enhancing? – in a situation when a person is faced with a negative evaluation of a central personality characteristic. Previous research suggested that affective reactions should follow the pattern predicted by self-enhancement theory by which all individuals would react with positive affect to ...

The free energy principle (FEP) portends to provide a unifying for the biological and cognitive sciences. It states that system maintain non-equilibrium steady-state with its environment it must minimise (information-theoretic) energy. Under FEP, is equivalent engaging in approximate Bayesian inference. According therefore, inference at explanatory base of biology cognition. In this paper, we d...

Despite ever-growing interest in the “social brain” and the search for the neural underpinnings of social cognition, we are yet to fully understand the basic neurocognitive mechanisms underlying complex social behaviors. One such candidate mechanism is the control of neural representations of the self and of other people (Brass et al., 2009; Spengler et al., 2009a), and it is likely that “commo...