Question

Karen has several goals, such as spending time with family and doing well in her career but sometimes these are activated at different times by environmental cues making her want to pursue one goal over the other. As Karen is walking to her office at work one day, she glances at a poster on the wall advocating for breastfeeding mothers. When she gets back to her desk, she suddenly feels like calling her daughter at daycare to check-in on how she's doing even though she is not aware of why she is feeling this way. This is an example of what

Answer 1

Explanation: This is an example of non conscious goal pursuit!

Answer 2

This is an example of a nonconcious goal activation.

Step-by-step explanation:

Researches have provided evidence that goals can also be automatically activated by the environment and without awarenes, we humans start to pursue.

That was the case of Karen, who has many goals. However, she was influenced by the environment (a poster on a wall advocating for breastfeeding mothers) and she felt the need of calling her daughter without even knowing why she was feeling that way.

A nonconscious goal removes the opportunity for an individual to choose and pursue an important goal, or to liberate from an unimportant goal and to follow another one.