KNPE 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pennsylvania Route 150, Situation Two, Ego Depletion
31 Mar 2017
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The capacity of human beings to override and alter their responses. It is the process by which people attempt to constrain unwanted impulses\ Can work in unison with self-motivation, but can also block impulses (aka unwanted self motivation) Impulse: an inclination to respond to a certain way in a particular situation on a particular occasion (we use self-regulation to control our impulses) Motivation: any sort of general drive or inclination to do something. Ego depletion (drop in energy level related to making changes) A state in which the self does not have all the resources it has normally . Related to a drop in fuel levels . When dealing with multiple behaviour changes, it would be harder to self-regulate so many things at the same time, and thus difficult to maintain behaviour change overtime. There aren"t multiple standards that the client has in mind depending on who they are talking to.
