COGS 110 Lecture 14: COGS 110 3/14/18
15 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Joe simpson using 2 tools to get out of situation. Goal - not to survive, but to get to rock in next __ minutes. Goals serve directive function; direct attention & effort toward goal-relevant activities. Rothkopf & billington (1979) found that students with specific learning goals paid attention to & learned goal-relevant prose passages better than goal-irrelevant passages. E. g. when joe fell, focused on getting up rather than finishing journey. Locke & bryan (1969) observed that ppl who were given feedback about multiple aspects of their performance on automobile-driving task improved their performance on dimension s for which they had goals but not on other dimensions. Difficult goals lead to greater effort than easy goals. Has been shown w/ tasks that (a directly entail physical effort, such as ergometer; (b), entail repeated performance of simple cognitive tasks, such as addition, When participants allowed to control time they spend on task, hard goals prolong effort.
