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, and the self and its strivings.

Readings

1. Chapter 09: Mindsets (Reeve, 2015)
2. Chapter 10: Personal control beliefs (Reeve, 2015)
3. Chapter 11: The self and its strivings (Reeve, 2015)

Multimedia

This video argues for turn around our thinking about stress and how it can be good for us:

• How to make stress your friend (Kelly McGonigal, TED talk, 2013 (11:51/14:29 min) (Start at 1:00 and End at 13:21)

This video humorously describes a replication of the infamous "marshmallow" experiment - those who can resist temptation tend to have better life outcomes:

• Don't eat the marshmallow! (Joachim de Posada, TED talk, 2009) (6 min)

Slides

Lecture slides:

• Mindsets (Google Slides)
• Personal control beliefs (Google Slides)
• The self and its strivings (Google Slides)

2018 handouts:

• • Download 6 slides to a page:
  • Download 3 slides to a page:

See also

• Implicit motives and goals (Previous lecture)
• Nature of emotion (Next lecture)
• Goals and self (Tutorial)
• Learned helplessness (Wikipedia)
• Mastery learning (Wikipedia)
• Self-efficacy (Wikipedia)
• Self-concept (Wikipedia)

Recording

• Lecture 06 recording (2018)

External links

• Building your resiliency: Part II – Avoiding learned helplessness and changing your explanatory style (Mackay & Mackay, 2010, artofmanliness.com)