They were provided with different goals according to an experimental 2 × 2 design with goal specificity (nonspecific goals versus specific goals) and goal type (problem solving goals versus learning goals) as factors.
Goal specificity is important because specific goals reduce ambiguity in thought and variability in performance".
They also can vary in their level of specificity, ranging from concrete and task-specific goals to more general and broad goals.
Work in the clinical domain has also identified a lack of specificity in goals and plans as a problem for depressed and suicidal patients.
The abstract, ruminative cognitive style of people with depression is one factor that may contribute to lack of specificity in goals and plans.
We hypothesised that those patients who received immediate treatment with MBCT would show a significant increase in the specificity of goals from pre to post treatment, whereas those who did not receive MBCT would show no significant change.
Goal Setting Theory identifies two specific attributes of goals – specificity and difficulty.
The design specificities and goals of alternative splicing microarrays, in terms of identification and quantification of multiple mRNAs from one gene, are promoting the development of novel methods of analysis.
Additionally, training includes for each thematic group sessions a thorough review of the process, content, educator role, learners actions, learning indicators, specificity of goal setting and problem solving taking into account individual, social and cultural context.
Our analyses on this particular gene set at the forefront of the interaction between the bacteria and its host, provides new insight into their evolutionary history and their potential contribution to host specificity Our goal is to provide a comprehensive and an as exhaustive as possible inventory of T3E in the RSSC as a public database from which curated information can be retrieved.
Two variables, those assessing baseline goal specificity and change in goal specificity, yielded significant kolmogorov smirnov statistics.
