Part 4: Implications for Professional Practice

• Implications for Professional Practice

  • Remember the Interactional Focus of Motivation
  • Monitor Attribution Patterns 
  • Emphasise Task/Mastery Goals 
  • Determine when Ego/Outcome Goals are useful 
• Implications for Professional Practice

  • Remember the Interactional Focus of Motivation
  • Goals, social (others), not just about person  
  • Monitor Attribution Patterns 
  • Monitor your attributions/other gives have patterns have impact on future performance 
• Implications for Professional Practice

  • Emphasise Task/Mastery Goals 
  • Most elite - high on task & ego 
  • Primarily should be on a task focus
  • Determine when Ego/Outcome Goals are useful 
  • Bad if only/primary focus 
  • But good in conjunction w/ task motivation
• Implications for Professional Practice

  • Motivation = Direction (goals) + Intensity (arousal + anxiety)
  • What trying to accomplish (direction)
  • Can have a powerful influence
  • Intensity = right now motivation