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11 Cards in this Set
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goals in " touching the void" |
- i looked ahead to a landmark and gave myself half and hour to reach it - place-lift-brace-hop. - watch would galvanise into action - become so important to beat the watch joe's long term gial : survival joe's short term goal: beating the clock/ making it to the landmark |
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Goals are directive |
They have a directive function: - They direct attention and effort toward goal-relevant activities and away from goal irrelivant activities. ( narrowing down what matters to achieving the goal ) - |
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Goals energize |
-They increase effort - difficult goals load to more effort than easy goals. - direct physical effort - repetition of simple cognitive tasks - subjective measures of effort physiological indicators of effort |
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Goals prolong effort |
- goals affect persistance - they prolong effort when participants are allowed to control the time the work on a task.. |
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effort length and intensity |
- trade off bet length and intensity of effort - work faster and harder for less period of time |
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Goals guide the work |
-ppl automatically use knowledge and skills they have already aquired, when its relevant to achieve the goal - ppl draw from repertoire of skills that they have used in related contexts and apply - if task for which goal is assigned is new ppl ingage in deliberate planning to develope strategies that will allow them to meet their goal. |
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Uninterested math students study |
study group of children who are not doing well/ uninterested in math set up situation where children could do self directed learning then looked at -performance -self efficacy -interest protocol - pre test/ self efficacy before learing - post test self efficacy/ post test/ post self efficacy two iterest: free choice activities CONDITIONS -control group - no training -no goals -long term goals -short term and long term goals short term goal group feels they did the best and actually did do the best |
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urging ppl to do their best |
when you tell someone to do their best, they do not do so specific and difficult goals consistantly lead to higher performance than urging. do your best goals have to external referant no clear idea of what 'best' is |
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goal commitment |
why is goal committment particularily important when the goals are difficult and challenging? difficult goal lead to low pS too much temporal discounting two types of facors facilitate goal committment believing goal is important believing that the goal is achievable: self efficacy to increase goal commitment: public commitment motivation and rationalle participatory- you have some say self directed - you came up with the goal |
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goals and the value equation |
what are the potental benefits of breaking a tast into potential subtasks R,D and pS |
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goals and self efficacy |
adequate to increase mastery role modelling persuasive communication. |
