PSYCH 243 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Feedback, Double Burden, Control Theory
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Psych 243 chapter 10 integrating work and leisure. Work: physical or mental activity done for a purpose. Leisure: nonwork in a highly valued pleasurable activity. Job: a duty, task, or function that someone does for pay. Career: what you do for a living and how you advance in it. Profession: complex work requiring formal training to qualify as a specialist in it (10 years) Person as a scientist: gathering objective information to make best possible predictions. Person as a judge: figure out what the best choices are given certain circumstances: vroom vie theory: person as a scientist (how do we work?) Valence: gain as much plus and minus job information as possible. Expectancy: also act as person as a judge. Instrumentality: the way that you get what you want: goal-setting theory: person as an intentional. Feedback loop: tells person how they are advancing toward goal.
