PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alfie Kohn, Unrequited Love, Jack Block

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

The full goal sequence: selection pursuit disengagement. Selection eg. how we select our goals; feeling autonomous about our goals we choose. Our personal goals are self initiated but often not self endorsed they are in conflict to our other goals and this makes it hard to pursue the goal and persevere. Setting an implementation plan + outsourcing the self regulatory challenges by involving other people in your life to support you. Disengagement; we realize we will not attain the goal and continuing to try and attain it will cause problems for us. Unrequited love example of goal pursuit where we should disengage. Completed the event with a broken knee and got the medal for the. Olympic athletes often risk their physical health to win. Additional info that sheds light on her motivation. Self regulation involves being able to stop yourself/override your typical way of responding.