PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Working Memory, Neuron, Memory
12 Oct 2018
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The ability to set and achieve goals is a key to long- term success. B) difficulty predicting the future: 1) affective forecasting: predicting how a future outcome will make you feel, a) e. g. i will be very happy (sad) if i get. X, where x is win the lottery, get married, graduate from high school, get a divorce: b) finding is that people consistently mispredict how happy or unhappy they will feel as a result. E) problems with goal definition: 1) goal is not specific enough, 2) goal is too far away (distal) rather than nearby (proximal, 3) not enough time put into defining the goal and identifying obstacles to completion. F) people don"t plan on a daily basis what they will do to advance toward their goal. G) people don"t practice their new behavior until it becomes easier (more automatic) People don"t think through the steps involved in accomplishing their goal.
