PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Affective Forecasting, Carol Dweck, Edmund Hillary
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Self-regulation and learning: the ability to set and achieve goals is a key to long term success. Achieving goals: common obstacles to goal achievement, setting and achieving goals, setting goals wisely, working out the details, making a habit, feedback and improvement, beliefs, motivation, and learning. Example: i will be very happy if i get x where x is win the lottery, get married, graduate, etc. Finding is that people consistently mispredict how happy or unhappy they will feel as a result. Break down the process into bite sized chunks . Have due dates for completing the steps toward your goal: people fail to develop specific action plans for how they will attain their goals, implementation intentions specify when, where, and how something will be accomplished. At 3 pm today i will sit town at my desk and read chapter. 1 : implementation intentions help to ensure persistence in the face of distraction and obstacles.
