PSYCH 124S Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Al Pacino, Achievement Orientation, Psych
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Outcome goal orientation (or competitive goal orientation): comparing performance with and defeating others. Task (mastery) goal orientation: improving relative to one"s own past performances. Social goal orientation: judging competence in terms of affiliation with the group and recognition of being liked by others. Attributions: how people explain their successes and failures. Have low perceived competence and feel that achievement is outside their. Avoid challenges, seek out very difficult or very easy tasks or competitors control. People are motivated to feel worthy or competent. Feelings of competence and worth, as well as perceptions of control, determine motives. What achievement motivation says about high achievers. Ascribe success to stable and internal factors within their control. Ascribe failure to unstable and external factors outside their control. What achievement motivation says about low achievers. Focus on shame and worry that may result from failure. Ascribe success to unstable and external factors outside their control. Ascribe failure to stable and internal factors within their control.
