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- Self-regulation
- Strategies used to control our behaviour
- Delay of gratification
- The ability to forgo an immediate reward for a larger future reward
- Bing study (Method and long term outcomes)
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Kids sat at table with oreos for 30 minutes and they could get double the reward. If they can't they can just take the oreos now
The kids that could delay gratification had higher verbal and math sat scores, better able to concentrate and cope with stress - Self-regulatory strategies
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1. Self-distancing
2. Emotion regulation
3. Scope of self-regulatory costs -
Self distancing?
- Self-immersed perspective
- Self-distanced perspective -
Self distancing - How we recall native emotional events
Self-immersed perspective - Recalling an event in the first person
Self-distanced perspective - Recalling an event in the third person - Emotion regulation
- Self-regulation specific to the control of emotional experience
- Reappraisal
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Interpreting potentially emotion: relevant stimuli in unemotional terms
Requires little effort - Suppression
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Inhibiting emotion: expressive behaviour while emotionally aroused
Trying to hide it, requires a lot of effort - Situation selection
- Controlling your emotions by avoiding situations that you think will make you feel bad and entering situations that you think will make you feel good
- Results of the emotional regulation test
- The people who suppressed their thoughts showed the biggest emotional response, getting cold and having less blood in their fingertips
- Cognitive cost of emotion regulation
- Suppressed people took longer, so there is resource depletion in your cognitive abilities wile you are trying to suppress thoughts
- Scope of Self-Regulatory Costs
- Self-regulation in one domain affects ability to exert control on subsequent tasks in another domain
- Theories of self-regulation
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1. Resource model of self-control
2. Process model of depletion - Resource model of self-control
- Self-control is like a muscle so it can tire out within a situation, but exercising self-control over time increases its strength
- Process model of depletion
- Shifts in motivation and attention are the result of spending your self-control on the first task