PSY 320 Week 4 DQs

This document of PSY 320 Week 4 Discussion Questions includes answers to the next points:

DQ 1: What factors do you consider when setting a goal (e.g., organization’s needs, time, resources, employee sophistication, and the job need)?

DQ 2: How can someone synthesize the tenets of goal theory into effective workplace goal-setting applications?

DQ 3: Describe the Reactance Theory and explain why people sometimes do precisely the opposite of what they were told to do?

DQ 4: What are two specific situations or ways of behavior that illustrate dissonance-arousing circumstances? Explain and define cognitive dissonance.