PSYC 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Construals, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Debt
17 Sep 2017
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How to make goals and habits work for u: topic of 2day. Lack of resources leads to issues in self control often (u know, ego depletion) Self-control: allows thoughts, emotions and behaviours to be overridden when necessary. Self control has a refractory period: engaging in self control impairs later attempts at self control (a time when self control can no longer be effectively exerted) Is glucose the resource: blood glucose vs brain glucose. Self control leads to blood glucose levels to drop, but if the self control resource is based in the brain, the brain glucose has 1% reduction. So why is there such a difference in scope of levels drop. (in the brain glucose is not completely depleted, so self control resource can"t be brain glucose) Incentives undo depletion effects: rewards resurge resources, and mere willing to engage more in a task kind of acts of a way to use more resources.
