Week 10 - The Self-Regulation Perspective Flashcards
Attitude towards outcome
A personal evaluation of the likely outcome of an action and the desirability of that outcome.
Subjective norm
Your impression of how relevant others value an action and your interest in pleasing them.
specific high goals leads to
higher performance
Goal intention
The intention to attain some particular outcome.
Implementation intention
The intention to take specific actions in specific contexts.
Deliberative mindset
A careful mindset used while deciding whether to take an action.
Implemental mindset
A positively biased mindset that’s used while implementing an intention to act.
What did Gollwitzer (2001) find in the study of those with damaged frontal lobes? (re intention)
Gollwitzer (2001) studied patients with frontal lobe damage and patients with damage in other areas of the brain. Those people with frontal damage were impaired in planning. However, if they were provided with if … then implementation intentions, they weren’t impaired in acting. This finding suggests that the planning is done in the frontal cortex, and the handling of the action is done somewhere else.
Negative feedback loop (and four components)
A self-regulating system that maintains conformity to some comparison value.
- a value for self-regulation (e.g. plans, intentions, possible selves, and strategies)
- input (perception of your present behavior and its effects)
- Comparator
-Check again against value
Comparator
A mechanism that compares two values to each other.
mental contrasting
Contrasting of present states with desired end states.
Mental contrasting seems to engage the comparator function of the self-control loop.
Thinking only about a future goal, or only about your present state, doesn’t have the same effect as thinking about both of them together.
Feedback hierarchy
An organization of feedback loops, in which superordinate loops act by providing reference values to subordinate loops.
Diagram of a three-level hierarchy of feedback systems.
This diagram shows the “cascade” of control that flows from higher-level loops to lower-level ones.
System concept
A very abstract guide for behavior, such as an ideal sense of self.
Principle
A broad, abstract action quality that could be displayed in any of several programs. Ideally leads to appropriate behaviour. E.g. ‘thoughtfullness’ or ‘truthfullness’
Principles specify programs (or decisions within programs
Program
A guideline (a set of if–then decisions) for the actions that take place in some category of events (as a script).
Action identification
The way you think of or label whatever action you are performing.
Disengage
To cease and put aside self-regulation with regard to some goal.
efficacy expectancy
the belief that one has the personal capability of doing the action that needs to be done.
Subliminal stimuli
Stimuli presented too quickly to be consciously recognized.
Deindividuation
occurs when people become immersed in a group. It involves a reduction in self-focus
self-regulation view emphasizes
goals.
Means–end analysis
The process of creating a plan to attain an overall goal (end) by breaking it into successively more concrete goals (means).
Once a goal for behavior has been evoked…
self-regulation reflects a process of feedback control.
Given that many goals are dynamic and evolving, this view emphasizes that self-regulation is
a never-ending process.
A single feedback loop is too simple to account for the diversity in people’s actions alone, but complexity is provided by
the fact that feedback systems can be organized in a hierarchy, in which one system acts by providing reference values to the system directly below it.
The concept of hierarchy accounts for the 2 facts that
a goal can be attained by many kinds of actions,
along with the fact that the same action can occur in service to diverse goals.
In self-regulation theory, emotions have been viewed as…
calls for reprioritizing one’s goals.
In self-regulation theory, avoidance means
creating distance instead of conformity.
