PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phineas Gage, Cognitive Load, Prefrontal Cortex
27 Dec 2018
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Self-regulations: bringing behavior, thoughts, emotions into line with desired outcomes. Requires monitoring, resisting alternatives, keeping focus, impulse control. We don"t know clearly if there is a downside of having too much control. Localisation in the prefrontal cortex of the brain (where personality is located) Study: ability to delay gratification at preschool age predicted social and intellectual performance in high school. Study: adults who have better self-regulatory ability show more positive outcomes in a variety of domains. Do we have mental control? (ex: when you are being told not to think about something, it"s harder to not think about it) Hyper-accessibility effect/rebound effect : suppressing unwanted thoughts, relationships, food, clinical populations. Mental control is achieved through two processes: intentional operating process - actually doing it. Conscious, effortful, and interruptible: ironic monitoring processes - checking up on ourselves. Used to monitor whether the to-be-suppressed thought is resurfacing.
