PSYC741 Motivation - Goals II

Latham & Baldes (1975) found that setting a specific hard goal rather than a generic goal lead to an increase in performance.

• True

• False

For Latham & Baldes (1975) paper, which month did the truck drivers’ performance decrease slightly?

• Month 1

• Month 2

• Month 3

• Month 4

 Latham & Baldes (1975) hypothesized that performance improvement would be evident after ____ month(s) of goal setting?

• First

• Second

• Third

• Fourth

For Locke (1982), results showed a continuous strong, linear relationship between performance and goal level as goal difficulty level increases.

• True

• False

 Locke (1982) study examined how many goal levels?

• 7

• 28

• 100

• 14

Locke (1982): Performance did NOT drop in performance when goals became impossible.

• True

• False

According to Park et al. (2016) cross meta-analysis, both ego and task goal orientation have increased over the years.

• True

• False

Park et al. (2016) cross meta-analysis’s inclusion rule included:

• participants were attending high school in Korea

•   participants were athletes who were actively participating in sports

•  participants responded to the 13-item TEOSQ

• all the above

Park et al. (2016): What relation did task orientation and ego orientation show?

• No relation (r = .10)

• Moderate relation (r = .40)

• Very strong relation (r = .87)

Park et al. (2016): What limitation(s) do the authors mention?

• the dichotomous distinction of goal orientation

• Sample group is too specific

• Number of studies was small (k)

• A and B