Thus the study, with 147 junior college sudents as the subjecs, attempted to invesigate the influence of goal specificity and goal proximity on basketball shooting. Subjecs were randomly assigned to one of the following conditions: (a) short-term goals; (b) long-term goals; (c) short-plus long-term goals; (d) ”do your best” goals. The results of this experiment indicated that short-plus long-term goals was the best. Also the effects is distinguishable. Second, short-plus long-term goals perform the better than short-term goals and do your best goals.