Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Implicit motives and goals

Lecture 05: Implicit motives and goals

Resource type: this resource contains a lecture or lecture notes.

This is the fifth lecture for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.

Goals drive effort and perseverance.

Overview

This lecture discusses:

• implicit motives
• goal-setting and goal striving

Take-home messages:

• Implicit (unconscious) motives include achievement, affiliation, and power motivations.
• We do our best when we have a specific plan of action to pursue a difficult, specific and self-congruent goal.

Multimedia

• David McClelland and three motivational needs (Management Courses, YouTube) (8:12 mins): Explains the three psychological needs proposed by David McClelland using a practical scenario - building a sales team.
• Locke and Latham's Goal Setting Theory (MindTools, YouTube) (1:29 mins): A lot of contemporary goal setting advice is derived from Locke and Latham's (1990) goal setting theory - summarised in this video using 5 Cs.

Readings

• Chapter 07: Implicit motives (Reeve, 2018)
• Chapter 08: Goal setting and goal striving (Reeve, 2018)

Slides

• Lecture slides
  • Implicit motives (Google Slides)
  • Goal setting and goal striving (Google Slides)
• Handouts
  • Download 6 slides to a page:
  • Download 3 slides to a page:

See also

• Images

Lectures

• Extrinsic motivation and psychological needs (Previous lecture)
• Mindsets, control, and self (Next lecture)

Tutorial

• Functionalist theory and self-tracking

Wikiversity

• Goal setting (Book chapters)
• Implicit motives (Book chapter, 2020)

Recording

• Lecture 05 recording (2021)

External links

• BBC Interview with Rupert Murdoch (YouTube, 1968) (0:48 min) - Example of one of the main type of social need - the need for power
• Keep your goals to yourself (Derek Sivers, TED talk, 2010) (3 min) - Conventional wisdom is to make our goals public to hold us accountable but it also gives a (false) sense of satisfaction that undermines future effort
• If you could achieve one goal in 24 hours (Brian Tracy) (2 min) - A "motivational guru" argues for putting everything aside to achieve one goal in 24 hours
• [https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_87.htm Locke's goal-setting theory: Setting meaningful, challenging goals) (Mind Tools)
• Want to succeed? Don't set goals, set systems (Adam Alter, Big Think) (3:50 mins) - Goal setting and goal striving can be a motivational double-edged sword