Intro Flashcards
What is the difference between self-regulation and self-control?
Self Reg is the exercise of control over oneself and Self Control is about specifically inhibiting impulses
Self-control failures underlie the majority of ____ _____ affecting the western societies
Social problems
What is grit?
Passion for and perseverance towards a long-term goal
What is a goal?
An internal representation of a desired state that you aim to attain
A goal is an end point, but also a _____ point
Starting
Sheeran found that the correlation between intentions and behaviour was only?
.53
Intentions do predict goals but only explain ___% of the variance
25%
Even strong intention are only translated into action __% of the time
50%
Using the government and cobras example, explain the Goodhart’s Law
A measure becomes a target and ceases to be a measure e.g. government asked to kill off cobras and people would get money if they bring them in dead, resulted in people breeding more cobras for money to having to release them
Name 3 challenges involved with self regulation
1) Deciding what goal to pursue
2) Planning how to pursue
3) Implementing these plans
Name 3 ways of measuring it
1) Self-report
2) Performance
3) Behaviour
Grit predicts positive outcomes, such as ______ ________ and professional success
Educational attainment
Name 2 reasons why published results may be overestimated?
1) Publication bias
2) Researcher degrees of freedom
In the key reading, they examined the association of dispositional self control with behavioural outcomes, what did they find about having high trait self-control?
It is relevant to a rich amount of beneficial outcomes, and is therefore one of the most beneficial traits in personality
Contrary to the view that self-control is mainly aimed at disinhibiting undesired behaviours, what did this study find?
That its effects on desirable and undesirable effects were approximately equal in size
