PSYC 389 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Negative Feedback, Extreme Behavior, Homeless Shelter
27 Jul 2018
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A cognitive framework to guide one"s attention, information processing, decision making, and thinking about the meaning of effort, success, failure, and one"s own personal qualities. Pre-decisional processes that energize and direct action. Ongoing maintenance and persistence of motivated action. Focus 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. Downstream consequences of deliberate vs implemental mindsets. Deliberate mindset is better for goal setting. Goal deliberation and formulation of what to do. Better at assessing pros and cons of decisions ( cognitive tuning) Planning and action to attain goal ( cognitive tuning ) Promotion-focused: failure is not motivating (no meaning), success motivationally energizes the system. Prevention-focused: success is not motivating, failure motivationally energizes the system. Gained-based strategy is open-mindedness, exploration, locomotion, acting fast, eager approach and locomotion (taking action to move from present state to an ideal state)
