Motivation & goals - lecture

Question 1

what do theories of motivation say?

Answer 1

focus on pursuing goals, and how you will achieve these goals

Question 2

what would adler say about goals ?

Answer 2

Adler ( ex ) says goal = achieve personal significance, strategy to achieve = pro social behavior? Domineering behavior ?

Question 3

goals

Answer 3

the end one desires

Question 4

goals are like…

Answer 4

prototypical pull theory

Question 5

long term goals

Answer 5

are necessary for meaning and inspiration
- Become a positive force in my community
- Become an educated/ knowledgeable person

Question 6

short term goals

Answer 6

are needed to make progress on long term goals
- Search LU community service website for opportunities
- Read the book assigned for my philosophy class

Question 7

nomothetic goals

Answer 7

basic set of goals that virtually all people pursure

Question 8

idiographic goals

Answer 8

goals someone is pursuing but not everyone is pursuing
( can be strategies to achieve nomothetic goals )

Question 9

Primary nomothetic goals ( McClelland )

Answer 9

-Achievement - celebrating achievement, talking about what they want to achieve ( wanting to become excellent)
-Affiliation - connect with others
-Power - influential over other people, say in what they think and what they do. ( feel strong and influential )

Question 10

primary nomothetic goals ( Emmons )

Answer 10

Seeking esteem, interpersonal success, self assertion, enjoyment, avoid negative affect

Question 11

Goals in achievement settings

Answer 11

When people are in achievement situation they tend to achieve two diff goals, judgement goals and development goals

Question 12

judgement goals

Answer 12

goals that show competence

Question 13

development goals

Answer 13

grow competence

Question 14

why are these two goals important ?

Answer 14

Important because it shows how well people respond when things do not go well in the achievement domain
- people react differently on setback based on what goal they are pursuing in the first place

Question 15

not achieving judgement goal shows what pattern?

Answer 15

helpless pattern response : do not take responsibility, blame others, also after setback withdraw effort.

Question 16

not achieving development goal shows what pattern ?

Answer 16

mastery oriented response : : taking responsibility, i must have done something wrong, i need to do something different to get better and work to see what they can do differently to achieve that goal
- Viewing yourself as the cause for what happened, but not in a negative way. ( trying to master the achievement area instead of withdrawing and blaming others for what happened )

Question 17

origin of goals ?

Answer 17

Implicit theories are one factor that influences what type of goal people gravitate towards

Question 18

nature of human attributes

Answer 18

entity and incremental theory

Question 19

Entity theory

Answer 19

abilities are fixed
-Someone would believe you cannot change how good you are at this or that, you have a set ability level for these things, (artistic or not, smart or not)
-Pursue judgment goal
-Task failing is typically depressing for entity theory

Question 20

incremental theory

Answer 20

abilities are malleable
- People can get better if they try
- Pursue development goal

Question 21

medical schools study on entity and incremental showed what ? ( DWECK )

Answer 21

• Dweck asked students in medical school what they were goal wise and then followed them through the year to see how they did
• found incremental and development goal = higher gpa & less likely to drop out or get kicked out
• entity people = defensive self destructive fashion

Question 22

coping with depression study on incremental and entity showed what ?

Answer 22

people with incremental tried things to get better and entity said this is the way they are and almost “rot” in that belief.

Question 23

moderator variable

Answer 23

affects how strong a certain variable is. ( influences the size of some other effect you are interested in )
- theories more impactful for low performing students

Question 24

any benefit for entity theorists ?

Answer 24

• Quicker to recognize when to move on.
• Some truth to incremental theory : you can perform badly and get better at something
• But, entity theory has some truth to it as well, not everyone is good at everything
• Some kids are better at playing instruments than others.
• Incremental theorist might try to get better at something that might never