PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Perceived Control, Goal Setting, Expectancy Theory
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In order to adopt a goal it must be motivating in some way. This may be your own goal or own given to you. Once you are striving towards a goal, goal commitment is the concept of how likely you are to keep striving towards that goal without giving up. Goal priming is the idea of linking stimuli to the goal such that those stimuli prime activation of the goal. I/o psychology often views commitment from the question of why people stay committed to their jobs. Affective commitment: commitment that comes from the fact that you have positive feelings toward something or enjoy is intrinsically. Continuance commitment: comes from the need for extrinsic aspects of things (paycheck, health insurance) Normative commitment: comes from a feeling that you simply should" be committed to something (i. e. friend got you the job) A model of how individuals choose between behaviors and goals. Key elements are valence, instrumentality and expectancy.
