PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Robert Frost, Autonomic Nervous System, Physical Fitness
12 Jun 2018
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REGULATING MOTIVATION
Self-regulation - the process by which an organism controls behaviour in order to pursue other objectives.
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Conflict between motivations
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Involve conscious goals
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Situations that require self-regulation
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Putting off pleasurable experience for a future payoff
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Difficult because immediate rewards tend to be valued more than delayed rewards
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Delay of gratification
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Resisting temptation
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Hot emotion/cool cognition
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Reducing motivational characteristics: placing reward out of sight
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Internal distraction: focusing attention away from reward
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External distraction: a toy in the room
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Imagery: cool characteristics of the reward
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How to do it
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Specific goals
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Moderately challenging
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Both long term purpose and short term steps
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Behaviour intentions: "when _______ happens, I will do _______"
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Physical fitness apps
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Weigh in every day
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Monitoring progress:
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Commitment - make it public; with friends
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Factors in Goal Success
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INTRODUCTORY TO EMOTION
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words (Robert Frost)
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Music is the shorthand of emotion (Leo Tolstoy)
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic but creatures of emotion
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Importance of emotions in life
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Emotion also provides information to the person experiencing it
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May include antecedent cognitive appraisals
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Ongoing cognition including an interpretation of its feeling state
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Expressions or social communicative signals
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May motivate approach or avoidant behaviour
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Exercise control/regulation of responses
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Be social or relational in nature
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Lzard (2010)
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Consists of neural circuits (at least partially dedicated), response systems, and a feeling state/process that
motivates and organizes cognition and action
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A psychological state that can involve changes in physiological arousal, conscious experience, motivation and
behavioral expression
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Sympathetic Nervous system --> arouses
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Autonomic Nervous System
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Physiological arousal
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Emotions are experiences as positive or negative in valence
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Associated with different degrees of arousal
Definition of Emotion
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Regulating Motivation
Introductory to Emotion
Theories of Emotion
Cognitive Factors
8A - Motivation and Emotions
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