PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Procrastination
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Humans are not stimulus response machines reinforcements and punishments are not enough: humans are meaning making creatures, based on internalized reinforcements social learning theory, if you believe enough, you can be incredibly motivated, over justification effect creativity and problem solving and kids. Self regulation energy, willpower, inhibiting distractions, keeping emotions in check: self regulatory resource goals depend on this too, dysfunctional behavior lapses in self regulation, marshmallow studies delay gratification, humans can overcome impulses with prefrontal lobe, seconds they can wait to eat the marshmallow predicts socio emotional adjustment when they"re 15, also predicts sat scores, self regulation drains resources subsequent performance is diminished by the first task, only true for extrinsically motivated behaviors, if task is intrinsically motivated, no self regulatory drain, vitality gets taken away by extrinsically motivated behavior, intrinsic motivation extent to which the task is fun, enjoyable, etc. recharged by intrinsic meaningful.
