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Psychosis: Goals of Pharmacotherapy
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2024
Antipsychotic drugs are a crucial treatment method for acute and chronic psychoses, bipolar illness, and behavioral disorders. The selection of these drugs depends on several factors, including the state of the disease, clinical judgment, possible drug interactions, and the patient's sensitivity to adverse effects. In immediate scenarios, such as delirium and dementia, short-term treatment with low doses of high-potency typical or atypical agents can effectively manage symptom exacerbation. For...
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Nonconscious Mimicry Occurs when Affiliation Goals are Present
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2023
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University People are social chameleons and regularly engage in nonconscious behavioral mimicry. This occurs when an individual unwittingly imitates the behaviors of another person, such as crossing one's legs moments after a person sitting adjacent does so, or adjusting one's body posture to match a conversation partner. Rapport between two people increases behavioral mimicry, just as mimicry also increases rapport. Psychologists have posited...
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Output Efficiency: Achieving Output Efficiency
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2025
Output efficiency happens when resources are used in a way that balances what people want with how goods are produced. This means the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) matches the marginal rate of transformation (MRT). When this balance is reached, the economy makes the most of its resources without waste.Take the example of bread and milk. If consumers are happy to trade 2 loaves of bread for 1 liter of milk, the MRS is 2. But if producers only need to give up 1 loaf of bread to produce 1...
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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
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2011
This paper illustrates an innovative visual approach (photovoice or photo-elicitation) to achieve fair process in clinical care for patients living with chronic health conditions, illuminate gaps in clinical knowledge, forge better therapeutic relationships, and identify patient-centered goals and possibilities for healing.
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Secondary Motives: Power Motivation and Achievement Motivation
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2025
Power motivation and achievement motivation are two essential social motives identified by psychologist David McClelland. These motives influence behavior in various personal and professional contexts, shaping how individuals interact with others and pursue their goals. Power motivation is characterized by the desire to influence, control, or have an impact on others. It is shaped by an individual's experiences, social environment, and cultural context. People with high power motivation are...
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Perceived self-efficacy shapes whether people convert intentions into sustained action. When individuals judge themselves capable of carrying out a goal, they are more likely to engage with planned behavior and persist when obstacles arise. In psychological research, this perception is examined alongside motivation, self-regulation, and planning to explain why similar intentions can produce different outcomes.
Implementation intentions connect a recognizable situation with a planned response, creating a specific link between conditions and behavior. This structure helps translate an intention into an action plan rather than leaving the response unspecified. Researchers study these plans as one mechanism through which planning and self-regulation influence consistent behavior during goal pursuit.
Progress monitoring provides information that can guide behavioral adjustment. When feedback reveals obstacles, limited progress, or changed conditions, individuals can revise their actions or decisions instead of continuing unchanged. This adaptive process is important because goal achievement depends not only on persistence, but also on responding appropriately to information gathered during pursuit.
A useful sequence begins by translating a broad aim into a specific target, followed by planning the actions needed to pursue it. Individuals then monitor progress, consider feedback, and adjust behavior when obstacles or conditions change. This sequence brings motivation, self-regulation, perceived self-efficacy, and implementation intentions into one practical framework for studying behavior.
Goal achievement research informs interventions in education, health, work, and personal development. Across these settings, psychologists examine how motivation, planning, progress monitoring, and adaptive decision-making affect outcomes. The topic is useful for identifying strategies that support persistence and help people translate desired aims into behavior within different practical and social contexts.
Studying goal achievement helps researchers distinguish between having an intention and carrying it out consistently. It provides a framework for examining persistence, self-regulation, feedback-based adjustment, and the role of perceived capability. Findings can guide interventions designed to improve behavior change and clarify why outcomes vary across educational, health, workplace, and personal-development settings.