PSYC19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Beer Garden, Eye Tracking, Positive Feedback
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Goal = cognitive representation of desired/undesired end-point that impacts thoughts, emotions, and behaviours representation of some future state can think of goals as approach/avoidant. Are intimately related to self-control and self-regulation. Self-control= self-restraint in line with personal goals. Self-regulation = pursuit of goal-directed behaviour might involve self-control, but doesn"t need to. Inhibitory = connections between goals are stopped/inactivated: e. g. , if you have a goal of excelling at work, have to inhibit goals that are in competition. How to reach goals: cybernetic model of goal regulation. Scientists described control as a small number of concepts = 4 to be exact understand how a system can control itself cybernetic feedback loop charles carver and michael scheier. First we need to have a goal = cognitive representation of desired/undesired state. Then evaluation of current state of affairs. Most cognitive representations (e. g. , memory) decrease in strength from the moment of activation not goals!
