PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - State Implementation Plan, Zelig, Ken Sheldon

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

Document Summary

Midterm thursday october 20 during class time. come 10min later than usual. Beyond setting smart goals: exploring why and how we pursue goals. The most common goal that we set is trying to lose weight, and it"s very difficult. Goal setting is the primary way we try to motivate ourselves. If we set a goal, we have to focus attention, give effort and persist. If you look at the example of new years resolutions, this is one goal where we actually track if we"ve succeeded or not. You keep failing at the same goals over and over and over. Clip from ctv: when a goal is made public, it"s a lot harder to back off. it"s also recommended that you get a lot of social support. This is the perspective of the social psychologist. It"s not possible to change someone so that they"re romantically attracted to you if this is not the case already.