Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Sympathetic Nervous System, Negative Affectivity, Electrical Resistance And Conductance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Chapter 17: self regulation from goal pursuit to goal attainment. Personal goals and projects: goals an individual pursues are organized and coherent, and of central importance in the functioning of the personality system, differ in goals you value, and shift over development. Automaticity: most of goal pursuit is automatic, these automatic mental-emotional processes activated in goal pursuit are adaptive for most life functions. John bargh showed that most of what people do runs off automatically without conscious intervention. Self-regulation requires both motivation and competence: effective self regulation and self control in goal pursuit depends on persons motivation and their competencies. Jack block the resilient person anticipates wisely when to stop something unfruitful or to continue something that may ultimately prove fruitful. Self-regulation in approach (appetitive) dilemmas: how certain mental processes enable or undermine self regulation and goal pursuit in approach or appetitive dilemmas. In both types of dilemmas people need willpower, or rather, the mental processes that make willpower possible.