PSYC 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Negative Feedback, Positive Feedback

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 389
• Professor: Nichole Scheerer

Document Summary

Plans of action: we have mental representations of ideal states of our behaviour/environment/events (we expect our pasta to taste a certain way before we eat it). Corrective motivation: present-ideal incongruities produce corrective motivation, corrective motivation leads to 1 of 3 outcomes, change plan, change behaviour (increase effort) ((1 and 3 usually better)), withdraw from plan. Dis(cid:272)repa(cid:374)(cid:272)y: dista(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)urre(cid:374)t state a(cid:374)d ideal state: small discrepancies = less motivational force. Long-term goal setting: accomplishing these involves accomplishing many short-term goals, goal proximity affects persistence and im, short term goals provide repeated commitment-boosting opportunities for rei(cid:374)for(cid:272)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g goal attai(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, that ltg (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t pro(cid:448)ide. Goal striving: effort, persistence, focused attention, strategic planning, mental simulations, focusing on goal can interfere with goal attainment, focusing on how to attain goal, facilitates goal attainment. Ie: study = picturing yourself as a doctor was not successful, people who thought of steps to become doctor were more successful in doing so.