PSY2001 W3 PT2 Monitoring Goal - L

Question 1

What is meant by monitoring goal progress?

Answer 1

monitoring progress (behaviour/outcomes) evaluating the discrepancies

Question 2

What is the effect of different forms of monitoring on behaviour?

Answer 2

behaviour monitoring is good for behaviour
outcome monitoring is good for outcome

Question 3

When and Why is monitoring effective?

Answer 3

it forces us to face our progress

Question 4

How do you assess if you are on track?

Answer 4

Monitoring goal progress

Question 5

What does Monitoring goal progress involve?

Carver adn Scheier

Answer 5

Involves periodically noting the qualities of goal-related behaviour or its outcomes and comparing these perceptions with salient reference values

Question 6

Are people with strong intentions more likely to monitor progress?

De Bruin et al. (2012)

Answer 6

1- Intention
2- Monitoring goal progress
3- Responding to discrepancies

Question 7

What is the correlation between intentions and self-regulatory processes?

De Bruin et al. 2012

Answer 7

r=0.59

Question 8

Is monitoring progress associated with goal achievement?

De Bruin et al. 2012

Answer 8

Intention > Self-regulatory processes >
Beta = 0.19 (positive relationship)
p < .001 (significant)

Question 9

Does public attention affect behaviour?

Answer 9

Yes: restrained eaters ate significantly more in the conditino where they were not subject to public attention

Question 10

Are you more likely to keep track of progress if youhave stronger intentions

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

important health behaviours

Meta-analysis: Harkin, Webb et al, 2016

Answer 11

Managing weight (k = 50)
Physical activity (k = 25)
Monitoring blood glucose (k = 24)

Question 12

Prompted participants to use a variety of methods to monitor their goal progress

Meta-analysis: Harkin, Webb et al, 2016

Answer 12

• Written diary (k = 46)
• Website (k = 30)
• Phone (k = 24)

Question 13

How much behaviour change?

Meta-analysis: Harkin, Webb et al, 2016

Answer 13

small to medium change

Question 14

What does monitoring progress helps people to do?

Answer 14

identify discrepancies

Question 15

Why do people do not typically keep track of their progress?

Answer 15

Monitoring goal progress often requires that people confront an unpleasant truth.

Question 16

Types of progress monitoring

Answer 16

Monitor behaviour d+ = 0.43 (k = 78)
Monitor outcomes d+ = 0.42 (k = 83)

Question 17

What might help to explain these findings (monitoring behaviour/outcome)

Answer 17

A Goal Systems Perspective (Kruglanski et al., 2002)

Question 18

What did we learn from the goal systems perspective ?

(Kruglanski et al., 2002)

Answer 18

Monitoring behvaiour has a 0.75 effect size on behaviour but 0.20 effect size for outcome.
Monitoring outcomes has a 0.60 effect size on outcomes and only 0.20 on behaviour.

Question 19

What are the References values?

Answer 19

Desired (future) target - d+ = 0.41 (k = 44)
Past - d+ = 0.43 (k = 12)
Others - (k = 2)

Question 20

What is the value of montoring that is recorded and not recorded?

Answer 20

Monitoring is recorded d+ = 0.43 (k = 106)
Monitoring is not recorded d+ = 0.29 (k = 32)

Question 21

How does monitoring progress bridge the gap between intentions and actions?

Answer 21

Prevents ‘the ostrich problem’ and helps people to identify discrepancies and so decide when to act.