Goooooooooooooooaaaalllllllllll (complex): Is Ted really an optimist or overstriver?
In this past week, we learned that the motives behind wanting to achieve predict our achievement goals. (Conroy, 2017). There are 2 achievement motives that we focused on from Conroy: Hope for Success and Fear of Failure. Within those 2 achievement motives, we can further break it down into what achievement goals are trying to be obtained. With Hope for Success, often people are trying to achieve a mastery approach or a performance approach. To recap on those previous terms, mastery approach is when you try to achieve a goal that will strengthen your skills, increases your knowledge, and to dominate a task that is based on your own internal rubric. Performance approach is when you are trying to achieve a goal with extrinsic motivation. You go into it trying to showcase how your skills are better than the group at hand. With fear of failure, it is the opposite. People are aiming for mastery avoidance or performance avoidance. Dr. Andrew Martin combined Hope for Su...
