SOCPSY 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Achievement Orientation, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2B03
• Professor: Tara Marshall

Document Summary

Getting started: hardest part for procrastinators, 5-second take-off - doing the behaviour for 5 seconds, 2. Insufficient goal-shielding: protecting important goals against other competing desires: 3. Disengaging from faulty courses of action: don"t want to waste, but have wasted time on sunk costs, something that will not benefit you in the end. Implementation intentions involve planning the when, where, and how of accomplishing goals. If situation x arises, i will do y : situation automatically a course of action, helps to close gap between intention and behaviour. Implementation intentions associated with better goal achievement: students who use implementation intentions show better academic performance. Interventions to enable goal pursuit: enhance goal striving -> enhance swb, american university students randomly assigned to goal-training condition or to control group, rated their progress in important personal goals, measured swb at end of term, 1. Own the goal strategy: reflect on deeper values the goal expresses, 2. Increase intrinsic motivation for pursuing goals: 3.