PSYC 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cognitive Dissonance, Negative Feedback, Homeless Shelter

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 389
• Professor: Nichole Scheerer

Document Summary

Mindsets: cognitive framework guides attention, information processing, decision making, and thinking about the meaning of effort, success, failure, and one"s own personal qualities (a-ip-dm-me-s-f-pq) Mindsets influence differences in lifestyle/ways of coping. Mindset acts as a motivational system, specific one adopted depends on: Motivation initial direction of behaviour: pre-decisional processes that energize and direct action (planning, choosing/setting goal requires one mindset . Volition: ongoing maintenance and persistence of motivated action, post-decisional processes that sustain ongoing action (doing, pursuing that goal involves different mindset. Focused on what they would like to do. Open minded process where many options are considered. Close-minded and attention is narrowly focused on goal attainment. Deliberate mindset is better for goal setting: better at assessing pros and cons of decisions. Implemental mindset is better for goal striving: leads to greater persistence and performance. Promotion-focused: failure is not motivating, success is motivating. Prevention-focused: success is not motivating, failure is motivating.