Goals: Goals

Goals: Goals: "Goal motivation refers to the ability of a desired end-state to move a person into action. The goal is the incentive a person is motivated ..."

Goals

Goal motivation refers to the ability of a desired end-state to move a person into action. The goal is the incentive a person is motivated to achieve. They are selected from an array of incentives, depending on their scope, complexity, cognitive nature, and their likelihood of being achieved. Goals are one-time accomplishments, although a person may have several concurrent goals. The motivational power of a goal decreases as its distance in the future increases due to discounting. Negative goals are discounted more steeply than are positive features. Peoples level of aspiration, which refers to their desire to want more and do better, serve as the motivation to set goals that accomplish that. Goals originate from their association with positive or negative affect, which is the emotional feeling the anticipated goal produces. Goals also provide the opportunity for the evaluation of self-efficacy, which refers to ones capability to perform the task at hand.