Time Orientation and Health 2 Flashcards

1
Q

Procrastination is ___________ associated with future time prospection

A

Negatively

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2
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Procrastination involves the ________ and __________ delay of _________ tasks

A

Unnecessary
Voluntary
Intended

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3
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Procrastination is ___________ associated with present time orientation

A

Positively

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4
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Do procrastinators recognise that their procrastination may have negative consequences?

A

Yes

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5
Q

Procrastination is a _________ bound behaviour that has consequences for the _____ self and the ________ self

A

Temporally
Future
Present

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6
Q

Central to understanding procrastination is

A

Short term mood regulation

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7
Q

Procrastination is _________ mood regulation

A

Short term

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8
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Why might procrastinators switch to a more pleasurable task?

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As a means to relieve their negative mood state

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9
Q

What do procrastinators prioritise?

A

Regulation of immediate mood/short-term mood repair

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10
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Procrastinators put an ______ on future self to fulfil intended task

A

Onus

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11
Q

Procrastination is a common _______ problem, involving the _________ and __________ delay of ________ _________

A

Self-regulatory
Unnecessary
Voluntary
Intended Tasks

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12
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Sirois & Pychyl (2013) said that procrastination is a __________ ___________ behaviour that has consequences for the __________ and ___________

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Temporally bound

Future self
Present self

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13
Q

Tice & Bratlavsky (2000) said “procrastination is giving…”

A

In to feel good

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14
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Do procrastinators think about the implications of poor temporal choices?

A

No

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15
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Procrastination
We make choices across timeframes

True or False

A

True

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16
Q

We procrastinate because we believe that future self…

A

Can take care of it

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17
Q

There is a lot of ________ on the future self

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Expectation

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18
Q

The more we think of future self as distant, the more ___________ it is

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Unattainable

19
Q

Sirois (2013) meta-analysis

What was the research question?

A

Is procrastination associated with poor HB’s because it is associated with time orientation?

20
Q

Sirois (2013) meta-analysis

What were the findings?

A

MODERATE-LARGE NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION between future TO and procrastination

21
Q

Sirois (2013) meta-analysis

What was the conclusion?

A

Procrastinators are not thinking about future

22
Q

Procrastination and future self perceptions (study 1, Sirois, 2014)

What did this study measure?

A

The extent to which people relate their current self & future self
- For number of choices

23
Q

Procrastination and future self perceptions (study 1, Sirois, 2014)

This study hypothesised that people who did not feel connected to their future self did not feel a sense of…

A

Self-continuity

24
Q

Procrastination and future self perceptions (study 2!!, Sirois, 2014)

The study found that procrastination was negatively correlated with….(2)

A
  1. Health promoting behaviours

2. Emotional closeness to future self

25
Q

Procrastination and future self perceptions (study 2!!, Sirois, 2014)

The study found that emotional closeness to future self was positively correlated with…

A
  1. Health promoting behaviours
26
Q

Procrastination and future self perceptions (study 1, Sirois, 2014)

This study concluded…

A

Procrastinators don’t feel close to future selves

27
Q

Procrastination and future self perceptions (study 2!!!! Sirois, 2014)

What was the RQ?

A

Does feeling distant from future self predict HB’s?

28
Q

Vividly imagining and describing a future self could increase…

A

Future self-continuity

Motivations to change HBs

29
Q

Future self-continuity
Motivations to change HBs

^ Asking participants to…. increased this ^

A

Imagine and describe future self

30
Q

As stress goes up, health behaviours…

A

Go down

31
Q

Procrastinators experience STRESS which activates a…

A

Stress-initated cognitive shifts focus towards IMMEDIATE CONCERNS

32
Q

Activation of brain areas involved in threat detection (2)

A
  1. Fight or flight

2. Goleman’s amygdala hijack

33
Q

Threat/stress narrows our temporal…

A

Focus

34
Q

Threat narrows our….

A

Temporal focus

35
Q

Threat narrows our _______ focus

A

Temporal

36
Q

It’s hard to think ______ and _______ when our temporal focus is narrowed

A

Broadly

Abstractly

37
Q

It is hypothesised that PROCRASTINATION leads to POOR HEALTH via two pathways…

A
  1. Stress

2. Health behaviours

38
Q

Procrastination is linked to _____ stress

A

Higher

39
Q

Procrastinators delay making medical appointments and experience a greater number of health problems.

True or false?

A

True

40
Q

Do procrastinators engage in MORE or LESS health promoting/protective behaviours?

A

Less

41
Q

Future time orientation is thinking _________________ when you make decisions

A

About the future

42
Q

Stress Orientation Hypothesis

A

Stress cognitive shifts orient focus away from future

Activation of areas of brain associated with threat

Narrows temporal focus

43
Q

Stress Orientation Hypothesis proposes that stress narrows the temporal focus AND f….

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Foreshortens the temporal horizon with respect to behavioural outcomes