Overview of Self-Regulation

Question 1

Self-Regulation

Answer 1

Any effort by a human being to alter its own behavioral responses

Question 2

Pathology

Answer 2

illness or disease
Impairment in social or occupational function
not always biological

Question 3

Hedonia

Answer 3

pleasure
motivation to seek things that feel good
pleasure seeking and pain avoiding

Question 4

Anhedonia

Answer 4

lack of pleasure
inability to feel reward or pleasure
lead to more radical behavior to get pleasure

Question 5

Euthymia

Answer 5

normal mood

Question 6

Dysphoria

Answer 6

bad mood

Question 7

Euphoria

Answer 7

good mood

Question 8

Homeostasis

Answer 8

▪ Body returns parameters within “normal” range

▪ Set point is fixed or constant

Question 9

Allostasis

Answer 9

▪ Keeping body parameters stable
▪ Set point is outside “normal” range
▪ Heavily shaped by our environments
The concept of physiology where an organism must
vary all of the parameters of its internal milieu and
match them appropriately to perceived and
anticipated environmental demands in order to
maintain stability
▪ Maintenance of apparent stability at a new,
potentially pathological “set point”
▪ Small challenge can lead to breakdown

Question 10

Nondependent unconditioned stimulus (think of the graph)

Answer 10

High imediate A states then it levels out

I small short B state

Question 11

Dependent unconditioned stimulus (think of the graphs)

Answer 11

B states last longer and is stronger than A

Takes longer or more to reach an A state and leads to addiction to compete with increasing B state

Question 12

A states

Answer 12

elevation or peak of a stimulus
on effect of an unnfected stimulus
elevation in “mood”
ex. first bite of cake is good, tenth is still good, 50th you dont want anymore

Question 13

B states

Answer 13

go below normal state

most times you can quickly recover

Question 14

Homeostasis vs. Allostasis

Answer 14

homeostasis- physiologic equilibrium, normal set point
stable, wide dynamic
range, no pathology
allostasis- compensated
equilibrium, abnormal set point
inherently unstable, restricted range, leads to pathology

Question 15

Importance of Self-Regulation

Answer 15

1. Self-regulation failure linked to many social ills
2. Raising of self-esteem is not the answer
3. Children who choose delayed gratification are
   more successful adolescents

Question 16

Self-regulation failure linked to many social

problems of contemporary society

Answer 16

1. Failure to control money
2. Failure to control weight
3. Failure to control emotions
4. Failure to control drinking and drugs
5. Failure to control sexual impulses

Raising self-esteem is not the answer

Question 17

Value of self-regulation

Answer 17

1. Lessen high divorce rate
2. Lessen crime rate
3. Children who can delay gratification are more
   successful as adolescents

Question 18

Essential features of self-regulation

Answer 18

A. Hierarchy of multiple processes: Overriding where one process overrides another (low level vs high level and usually choose low)
B. Feedback loops

Question 19

Overriding or Self-stopping

Answer 19

what we think we should do and what we see others doing
a. Essential nature of self-regulation
b. Higher processes override lower processes
c. There are multiple levels of action
d. Self-stopping is the most basic form of
overriding

Question 20

What are higher processes?

Answer 20

a. Longer time spans (gettign an A vs getting a 3.8 GPA)
b. More extensive networks of meaningful
associations
c. More distal, abstract goals (getting good grades to be successful not to apease parents)

ex. lower process is a desire for a cigarette and higher process is the resolution to quit

Question 21

Children’s ability to delay gratification

Answer 21

pre-test to find prefered toys to motivate delay
create a conflict in the shild to wait with one object and if they wait they get 2
child had to wait 15 minutes

Question 22

Feedback Loops

Answer 22

1. Standards-target (want to quit smoking)
2. Monitoring-attention (can tell where you are and know where you want to be)
3. Strength - operating (excute effective change)

Question 23

TOTE

Answer 23

Standards-desired goal
Test-monitoring-ability to accurately detect
Operate/Exit-strength-ability to effectively change

Question 24

Two types of control

Answer 24

1. Primary control: Changing environment to fit
   self
2. Secondary control: Changing self to fit
   environment