Goals Flashcards
Achievement
The desire to do well, relative to a standard of excellence.
Achievement Orientation
A theory to explain people’s responses to challenge and excellence standards.
Their attitudes towards achieving goals.
Coping
The management of taxing/stressful situations.
Drives
Motivate behaviour.
The desire to reduce tension caused by a imbalance in terms of homeostasis, as a result of an unsatiated/neglected psychological or phyiological need.
Hull - Drive Theory.
Emotional Intelligence
Ability to motivate oneself, and persist despite frustration, to control impulse and delay gratification, to regulate mood and keep distress from overwhelming, to empathise and hope.
Explanatory Style
The term for explanations people give following the experience of good/bad events.
Goals
Something you’re trying to achieve.
Assigned/self-set goals.
Goal Orientation
Refers to motivational framework used to achieve goals.
Attitude towards goal achievement
Related to performance/mastery.
Happiness
A mental state of positive affect.
Life-satisfaction
A measure of subjective well-being.
Mastery
Refers to goal orientation. Involves the development of competence for its own sake, for intrinsic reasons.
Happiness from competence.
Needs
Refers to drives can be psychological or physiological.
Performance
Refers to goal orientation.
Performance approach - completing goals to receive external reward.
Performance avoidance - avoiding a goal for fear of failing.
Approach leads to happiness from external reward (e.g. grades).
Pleasure
Results from a rush of dopamine in the reward system.
Recovery
The return to normal health, physical/mental.
Relates to recovery orientation.
