PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Goal Setting, Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Anagram

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Adam Etinson

Document Summary

Intimately related to self-control (sc) & self-regulation (sr: sc: self-restraint in line with personal goals, sr: pursuit of goal-directed behavior. Goal systems theory: structure of goals, exists as cognitive representation in memory (including implicit representation unconsciously aware of goals that influence behavior), organized as interconnected hierarchy, with goals connected to multiple sub-goals and means to achieves. Introduce self-control when there is conflict between competing goals: fluctuates in accessibility, varying across time and situation, spreading activation between goals and sub-goals, connection can be excitatory or inhibitory, e. g. If there is a discrepancy between them, it will spring into action and implement change in the current state of the system. Keep changing the state until the discrepancy is small anterior cingulate cortex. Implementing system inferior frontal gyrus: e. g. thermostat, examples, thermostat, set temperature is 21 degrees, but the house"s temperature is 19.