Setting Goals

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Refers to the future valued outcomes that we plan and hope to achieve.

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Goals

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2 types of goals

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1. Short Term
2. Long Term

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Goal that takes within a week or a span if several months.

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Short Term

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A process of establishing clear and usable targets or objects.

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Goal Setting

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Goals that take years.

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Long term

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Awareness of our cognitive processes.

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Metacognitive

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Ability to manage our behavior and environment to improve learning.

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Self-regulation

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2 goal orientation

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1. Mastery goal
2. Ability-Focused goal

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Has an intrinsic focus on learning and on acquiring the abilities needed to master a challenging task or situation.

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Mastery goal

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Aims to exhibit our ability and competence.

It is also called performance goal orientation, which focuses on validating our competence through external rewards, such as praise and admiration from some other people.

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Ability-Focused goal

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Serve a as time-control mechanism that improves the effectiveness of goals

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Deadline

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Provides an evaluation of how well we are doing.

Motivates us to continue the good work or cautions us to make necessary adjustments to foster goal attainment.

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Feedback

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4 mechanism where goals affect performance.

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1. Goals serve a directive function
2. Goals have an energizing function
3. Goals affect persistence
4. Goals affect action indirectly

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One of the most well renowned living psychologist in the field of psychology.

A forerunner of Social Cognitive Theory of Learning.

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Albert Bandura

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Refers to one’s capability to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage perspective situations.

A thought of a task-specification of self-esteem.

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Self Efficacy

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2 types of self-efficacy

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1. High self-efficacy
2. Low sense of self-efficacy

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People feel confident that they can successfully take on certain task and more likely to take risk even though the process becomes challenging.

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High self-efficacy

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People easily give up in the face of difficulties.

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Low sense of self-efficacy

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4 ways/factors that contribute to one’s self-efficacy.

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1. Mastery Experience
2. Social Modeling
3. Social Persuasion
4. State of Physiology

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Also known as Personal Performance Accomplishment.

The key to mastering is to approach life with dedicated efforts and experimenting with realistic but challenging goals.

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Mastery Experience

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Also termed as Vicarious Learning.

Choosing role models that can demonstrate their self-efficacy.

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Social Modeling

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Is about finding the right mentor.

Having others directly influence one’s self-efficacy by providing opportunities for mastery experience in a safe and purposeful manner.

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Social Persuasion

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The physiological and emotional states we have while we are undertaking a certain task can affect not just our performance but also the beliefs, we have in ourselves.

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States of Physiology

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Emotions like fear and anxiety.

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Strong Emotions

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Makes us feel too confident and hold us back from giving our best

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Feeling too relaxed

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Strong enough emotions to challenge us but not too strong as to hinder a successful performance.

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Moderate Emotions

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A Lewis and Virginian Eaton professor of psychology at Standford University. A is known for her work on the Mindset Psychological Traits.

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Carol Dweck

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Are beliefs about one’s self and one’s most basic quality.

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Mindset

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2 types of mindset.

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1. Foxed Mindset 2. Growth Mindset

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Believed that one success is based on innate ability or their given traits.

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Fixed Mindset

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Can see their qualities as things that they can developed through dedication and effort.

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Growth Mindset

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5 Characteristics for successful goal setting.

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1. Clarity 2. Challenge 3. Commitment 4. Feedback 5. Task Complexity

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Meaning of SMART

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Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time Bound

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Precise with a single focus per goal.

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Specific

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It can be measured so that you know when you hit them.

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Measurable

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Make sure that the goal you set is achievable.

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Achievable

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Should be relevant to the direction you want your life and career to take.

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Relevant

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Your goal should have deadline.

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Time Bound

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Shows the situation where people aren’t being challenged.

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Low pressure

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Shows the situation where they’re starting to fall apart under pressure.

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High stress

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Where people work at peak effectiveness, they’re sufficiently motivated to work hard but they’re not so overloaded that they are starting to struggle.

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Best Performance