This example helps clarify something for me. I don’t think it’s that the “cognitive context was...too dissimilar” for the students, I would guess that it’s that they don’t care in class. When they’re doing they’re job or shopping, they do care. But the obvious reply is: why do I hypothesize that cheating-examples make people care in a fictional context? Maybe someone can help say it clearly for me, but it just makes sense to me that math requires a higher threshold of “caring” than something like “cheating.” If I were reading a novel about a kid solving math problems in class, I’d probably wouldn’t care about the math problems, but if I were reading a novel and cheating was possible, it probably would cause a reaction. This is what I was trying to get at with testing “various types of emotionally-motivating things,” it just seems obvious that some things will evoke emotions in some contexts but not others, and some emotional responses will increase performance or some won’t, but I can’t put it better than that right now.
This example helps clarify something for me. I don’t think it’s that the “cognitive context was...too dissimilar” for the students, I would guess that it’s that they don’t care in class. When they’re doing they’re job or shopping, they do care. But the obvious reply is: why do I hypothesize that cheating-examples make people care in a fictional context? Maybe someone can help say it clearly for me, but it just makes sense to me that math requires a higher threshold of “caring” than something like “cheating.” If I were reading a novel about a kid solving math problems in class, I’d probably wouldn’t care about the math problems, but if I were reading a novel and cheating was possible, it probably would cause a reaction. This is what I was trying to get at with testing “various types of emotionally-motivating things,” it just seems obvious that some things will evoke emotions in some contexts but not others, and some emotional responses will increase performance or some won’t, but I can’t put it better than that right now.