The phrase "activate a goal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the initiation or implementation of a specific objective or target in various contexts, such as personal development, project management, or gaming.
Example: "To achieve success in this project, we need to activate a goal that focuses on improving our customer satisfaction ratings."
Alternatives: "set a goal" or "initiate a goal".
This study provides evidence that a prime which promotes fruit and vegetable consumption, without appealing to healthiness, could activate a goal of healthier eating independently of restraint status, as measured by food preference.
The results give no support to Hypothesis 2: the prime did not seem to activate a goal of eating fruits and vegetables in participants under cognitive load, either as measured with food preference or with size estimates.
In addition, the studies did not establish whether the prime activated a goal (evidence of a goal priming mechanism) or merely enhanced the accessibility of semantic constructs related to this goal (semantic priming) (Forster et al., 2007) for instance, by exploring the effect of goal fulfillment on goal activation (Forster et al., 2007).
In several studies, researchers have also shown that, once covertly activated, an unconscious goal persists with the same determination that is evident in our conscious pursuits.
After all, the act of pursuing a goal activates the release of dopamine in the brain.
Neurophysiology has revealed the existence of mirror neurons in the brain of macaque monkeys that activate when the monkey executes a goal directed behavior and also when it observes the same behavior performed by another.
By the time we're done, we'll have traveled 12,000 miles, visiting 38 communities in 25 states with a goal to activate 153,000 volunteers nation-wide - 1,000 for every year we've been in business.
For example, every employee received a PIN number that was needed to activate a printer with the goal to prevent print jobs from piling up at printing stations.
Crowdfunding, to me, is the same as activating a passionate community around a goal.
Thus, whether ATAD2 could affect APC and CTNNA1 to foster tumorigenesis by activating the WNT pathway is a goal for further research.
The development of coordination complexes to activate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) selectively is a goal that has long been pursued.
