Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Mindsets, control, and the self
Lecture 06: Mindsets, control, and the self
This is the sixth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.
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Overview
[edit | edit source]This lecture discusses:
- mindsets
- personal control beliefs
- the self and its strivings
Take-home messages:
- Different mindsets lead to different goal striving strategies
- The core efficacy belief of "I can do it" and the outcome belief of "it will work" lead to competent, enthusiastic functioning
- Exerting self-control over short-term urges is needed to pursue long-term goals; but this capacity is limited and needs replenishment
Outline
[edit | edit source]Mindsets
- What are mindsets?
- Deliberative – Implemental
- Prevention – Promotion
- Fixed – Growth
- Dissonance – Consistency
Personal control beliefs
- Expectancy and control
- Self-efficacy
- Stress and coping
- Mastery vs helpnessness
- Reactance
- Expectancy-value model
Self
- Self strivings
- Self-concept
- Self-identity
- Agency
- Self-regulation
Readings
[edit | edit source]- Chapter 09: Mindsets (Reeve, 2018)
- Chapter 10: Personal control beliefs (Reeve, 2018)
- Chapter 11: The self and its strivings (Reeve, 2018)
Multimedia
[edit | edit source]- How to make stress your friend (Kelly McGonigal, TED talk, 2013) (12:21 min) explains that changing how we think about stress can actually make it good for us.
Slides
[edit | edit source]- Mindsets (Google Slides)
- Personal control beliefs (Google Slides)
- The self and its strivings (Google Slides)
See also
[edit | edit source]- Lectures
- Implicit motives and goals (Previous lecture)
- Nature of emotion (Next lecture)
- Tutorial
- Wikipedia
- Learned helplessness
- Looking-glass self
- Mastery learning
- Mindset
- Self-efficacy
- Self-concept
- Trier social stress test
- Wikiversity
- Mindset (Book chapters)
- Optimism (Book chapters)
- Pessimism (Book chapters)
- Reactance (Book chapter, 2017)
- Self (Book chapters)
- Self-efficacy (Book chapters)
- Zeigarnik effect (Book chapter, 2015)
Recording
[edit | edit source]- Lecture 06 (2024)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Don't eat the marshmallow! (Joachim de Posada, TED talk, 2009) (6 min) shows a replication of the infamous Stanford marshmellow experiment by Walter Mischel which found that children who can resist temptation (delay gratification) tend to have better life outcomes.