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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 discussses 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)

Slides

• Lecture slides (Slideshare)

2015 handouts:

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See also

• Motivation and goals (Previous lecture)
• Nature of emotion (Next lecture)
• Motivation, optimism, and self (Tutorial)
• Learned helplessness (Wikipedia)
• Mastery learning (Wikipedia)
• Self-efficacy (Wikipedia)
• Self-concept (Wikipedia)

External links

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

Multimedia

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)

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)