Episode 186 - Goal Setting
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
So you're telling me, if I just set some goal above my current performance—maybe even really high above my current performance—I'll just suddenly improve? And if I pair my goal with feedback, I'll perform even better? There's got to be more to it than just that. Oh, listen to this podcast about goal setting research and learn all you need to know? Ok, that'll be my first goal.
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Articles discussed this episode:
Amigo, S., Smith, A., & Ludwig, T. (2008). Using task clarification, goal setting, and feedback to decrease table busing times in a franchise pizza restaurant. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 28, 176-187. doi: 10.1080/01608060802251106
Loewy, S. & Bailey, J. (2007). The effects of graphic feedback, goal setting, and manager praise on customer service behaviors. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 27, 15-26. doi: 10.1300/J075v27n03_02
Gil, P.J. & Carter, S.L. (2016). Graphic feedback, performance feedback, and goal setting increased staff compliance with a data collection task at a large residential facility. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 36, 56-70. doi: 10.1080/01608061.2016.1152207
Fellner, D.J. & Sulzer-Azaroff, B. (1984). A behavioral analysis of goal setting. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 6, 33-51. doi: 10.1300/J075v06n01_03
Roose, K.M. & Williams, W.L. (2018). An evaluation of the effects of very difficult goals. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 38, 18-48. doi: 10.1080/01608061.2017.1325820
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as |
| 0:21.8 | always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey, Rob, it's Dana. And it's me, Jack, Jackie. Is that like fun? |
| 0:29.2 | Do you like plan those ahead of time, Jackie, like the extra sounds or you just kind of whatever |
| 0:32.6 | comes to you? Whatever comes to me. Nope. Actually, I've set myself up with some goals to make myself more, |
| 0:39.6 | to make my language more variable each time that we do this podcast. We're like a lag schedule |
| 0:45.1 | of crazy intros. You all recognize it, right? Because I can't reinforce myself. That's true. |
| 0:52.7 | I need to put those contingencies in place. |
| 0:54.4 | It's a lag one. |
| 0:55.9 | Okay. |
| 0:56.4 | So it just needs to be different than the last time. |
| 0:58.3 | Yep. |
| 0:59.3 | Okay. |
| 1:00.4 | And it was because Jejja Jackie hasn't been for a couple years. |
| 1:05.4 | That's true. |
| 1:06.9 | Welcome. |
| 1:07.5 | Welcome to our podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research where every week we discuss a topic in the field and the relevant research behind it. |
| 1:16.5 | And this week, as Jackie mentioned, we're all about goal setting. |
| 1:21.5 | But not kicking goals in soccer or basketball. They don't call it a goal in basketball. |
| 1:27.1 | Football? |
| 1:28.9 | It's a hooper. It's a dunker a dunker football goal yeah yes you could have a goal in football we're talking about goals like |
| 1:34.9 | personal goals work goals goals goals goals the things that you set hashtag life goals hashtag |
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