What is not SMART about this goal setting.
What should Tom do?
Activity Questions
Placebo vs. Nocebo
100

You set a goal to work out for fifteen minutes each Tuesday right after school until you can win tug-of-war against your brother. This is what you are missing of the SMART goal.

What is specific?

100

Tom has dreams to become a gymnast, but he is not flexible whatsoever. This is the acronym he should use to format his goal.

What is SMART?

100

True or False: Yoga is a religion.

What is False? (it is a physical/mental practice and spiritual discipline)

100

Tom's evil twin brother, Jerry wanted to become a figure skater. But because his friends didn't think it was cool, he made a self-fulfilling prophecy that he was not going to be good at it. He made this type of effect.

What is the Nocebo effect?

200

You want to join the water polo team so you start training by swimming 10 laps with a break every five laps until you can move from one corner of the court to the next in 3 minutes or less. This is what you are missing of from the SMART goal.

What is Timely?

200

Tom wants to get second place in the Olympics for male gymnastics; this is the type of goal that is.

What is a long term goal?

200

Why type of martial arts did you just do?

What is Soo Bahk Do?

200

Norman G. Baker was a famous conman in the thirties for supposedly having the cure for cancer. Mr. Baker had a radio show and to gain more followers he did a stunt where he opened up a hospital with a supposed cure to cancer. He took five "cured patients" onto his radio show and all of them had said how much better they feel. In reality these five patients didn't last more than a month. They felt better because of this effect.

What is the placebo effect?

300

You want to hold the Guinness world record with your team of Octopush players so you do holding your breath exercises such as blow tests at 4:30pm on Saturday for fifteen minutes. This is the goal you are missing from SMART.

What is measurable?

300

Tom has been addicted to his phone recently and has stopped practicing when he finally goes back to practice, his drills are too hard for him now. 

He should do this. 

A. give up on his hopes and dreams

B. cry himself to sleep

C. all of the above.

D. make it easier on himself and re-adjust.

D. make it easier on himself obviously.

300

True or False: The wrist grab you just did could it be done if both sides swapped which hand they used.

What is true?

300

True or False: A self-fulfilling prophecy is always a nocebo effect.

What is False?

400

You have just learned about the sport of cheese rolling. You think it sounds fun, so you decide to set a goal of winning the cheese roll in under two minutes. The closest cheese roll is happening this Saturday at 7:00pm. What SMART goal is being neglected?

What is attainable?

400

Tom wants to touch his toes. This is what type of goal that is.

What is a short-term goal?

400

This color coded name is increasing in your brain during yoga.

What is grey matter?

400

Give me a real-world example of the placebo effect and the nocebo effect.

Whoever got it first gets the points.

500

You wish to chess box against Magnus Carlsen, so you start learning different types of punching. You want to do every single type of punching you have learned while reciting the different grandmasters of chess every Sunday afternoon at 5:00pm-7:00pm. You keep going until you win different chess clubs so you can reach the same level as Magnus Carlsen. This is what you are missing of the SMART goal.

What is realistic?

500

Tom has trained for ten years and has finally gotten to the Olympics, and he got his goal of second place! This is what he should do next.

What is set another goal?

500

This is the best position to do after yoga.

What is Corpse pose?

500

You want to miss school tomorrow because of a big math test you didn't study for. The next morning, you find out that you did actually become sick. Sadly, it makes you bed-ridden for the next three days which means you miss the big game. This is an example of the nocebo effect, the placebo effect, or just a random coincidence.

What is a random coincidence?

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