Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Mindsets, control, and the self

Lecture 06: Mindsets, control, and the self

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

Overview

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

Readings

1. Chapter 09: Mindsets (Reeve, 2018)
2. Chapter 10: Personal control beliefs (Reeve, 2018)
3. Chapter 11: The self and its strivings (Reeve, 2018)

Multimedia

• 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

• Lecture slides
  • Mindsets (Google Slides)
  • Personal control beliefs (Google Slides)
  • The self and its strivings (Google Slides)
• Handouts
  • Download 6 slides to a page:
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See also

• Images

Lectures

• Implicit motives and goals (Previous lecture)
• Nature of emotion (Next lecture)

Tutorial

• Learned optimism

Wikipedia

• Learned helplessness
• Mastery learning
• Self-efficacy
• Self-concept
• Trier social stress test

Wikiversity

• Mindset (Book chapters)
• Optimism (Book chapters)
• Pessimism (Book chapters)
• Self (Book chapters)

Recording

• Lecture 06 recording (2021)

External links

• 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.