PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Motivation, Carol Dweck, Procrastination
Document Summary
Goals & motivation: koestner, r. , lekes, n. , powers, t. a. , & chicoine, e. (2002). 22 goals: self-concordance plus implementation intentions equals success. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(1), 231-244. psychological growth: testing an intervention to enhance goal attainment and personality integration. Journal of personality, 70(1), 5-31: sheldon, k. m. , kasser, t. , smith, k. , & share, t. (2002). Marshmallow experiment (wait time) when they were kids -> sat scores later in their teens. Procrastination: (expectancy x value) / (impulsiveness x delay) Most people come out of grad school depressed. Grad school is brutal on people"s self-esteem. Take your big abstract goals and break them down to smaller concrete sub goals. Building a feedback system into your goal can be very effective. The difference between setting a goal with yourself and setting a goal and specifying for yourself: how you are going to do it. Coming up with a way to replace negative thoughts with positive productive thoughts.
