PSYC19H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Statistical Power, Methylphenidate, Construals
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Purpose of paper: although the resource model captured our imagination and brought much needed attention on an important psychological construct, this paper states that it needs to be revised if not abandoned all together. Self control: colloquially known as willpower and related to self regulation. Refers to the set of mental processes that allow people to override thoughts, emotions, or behaviors that compete with their central goals with their central goals. Relies on executive function such as inhibitory control. Relates to desirable things: health, happiness, financial stability, academic achievement, low levels of drug dependence and criminality. Interest took hold in the late 90"s/earl(cid:455) 2000s due to resource model. Instigate 2 competing desires/ response tendencies that compete for behavioral enactment. Resource model of self control: self control is an inner capacity that relies on some limited resource or fuel that exhausts with use and effortful control consumes this limited inner capacity; leaving one in a state of ego depletion.
