pyschology 40s

Her cognitive explanation to motivate her to acieve her goal is Intrinsic Motivation. She is doing this for her own sake to continue on what she loves and by doing that she feels good about it. She is not looking for any reward in the end, but to know she accomplished something she’s been wanting for a long time. Her main motivation is achievement motivation. It is her desire for significant accomplishment. This high standard of getting accepted into biomed will not only make her feel like she’s accomplished the main point of her goal, but also she would have felt like she accomplished the respect and happiness of her parents and the people around her. Even though its difficult, and many people are fighting for a spot with limited numbers of acceptance, she’ll still gradually continue strong to get what she wants. Three steps to motivate her to do well are, positive emotion, connecting her achievements with her efforts, and also setting this goal at a high standard, but not so high that she cannot achieve it. By achieving all of the basis to positive motivation, she will gradually have an approach/approach situation. She is doing well in her bio and chemistry class, because she decided to put little things aside and finish all her homework before anything else.

Main stressors in achieving her goal is homework. This is a daily stress that are repeated everyday, and she has to decide on her own if she will do it because she knows its necessary or pushing it aside until it is to late to finish/hand in. This can cause a burnout and can lead to depression, emotional exhaustion, decrease in her homework, physical exhaustion etc. Another stressor are her friends. They might want to go out, to the mall, party etc. and she knows that she needs to get her project done to hand in on time, but her friends pressure her to go out with them, that she can finish it later. This can cause emotional exhaustion, depression and guilt. One big event that is definitely stressful, not to herself but to many people are EXAMS. Exams are probably the biggest stress factors in many young adults. This is the time where everything you’ve learned throughout the whole year into one HUGE ‘test’. This can cause her to become emotional exhausted, depressed, physical and mental exhaustion. Her brain will definitely be burnout by cramming everything she’s learned in a weeks time.

One solution to any stressor mentioned above is, exercising. By maintaining your health, it makes you less depressed, physical, mental and emotional exhausted. It’s pretty much a relief and it also makes you feel better by the end of the day. By accomplishing one thing, by keeping fit and exercising, it may make you think, since I finished exercising, and it makes me feel wonderful I can finish my homework also. Instead of looking at it in a negative perspective, it can also be looked at in a positive point of view. Exercising keeps her healthy, happy and confident, it also makes her want to finish her homework. Another solution Alisa deals with stress is, listening to her instincts instead of people around her. Even though her friends put pressure on her to go out and party or go to the mall, she simply can turn them down, get her homework done and feel better and have less stress on herself rather than pushing it to the side, leaving it till last minute, where she is very stressed and cannot deal with everything at once. To deal with exam stress, she has thought of a plan that may reduce the stress. She is going to start from the beginning of June till exam starts, and each day gradually study one of her courses, and keep alternating them, so she does not have to cram everything all at once. This will decrease emotion, physical and mental exhaustion and to not cause her to have a burnout. If she accomplish this every time she is face to face with stress, she will do well in accomplishing her goal.