Avolition is an inability to initiate and complete goal-directed behaviour.

Anything that makes the outdoors more pleasant to be in will augment our wish to get outside and get away from goal-directed behavior.

Also during this time, cognitive flexibility, goal-directed behavior, and planning begin to develop.

A second component is the management of emotional responses in order to achieve goal-directed behaviors.

At the preschool age they also develop more goal-directed behaviors.

The problems of initiating and maintaining goal-directed behavior can be addressed by using the implementation intention process.

As a result, the chosen goal-directed behavior (the then-part of the plan) will be performed automatically, without conscious effort.

Without commitment, an implementation intention will hardly have any effect on goal-directed behavior.

It is also needed for goal-directed behavior.

Patients with frontal lobe injury may have problems in the selection, production, and organization of goal-directed behavior.