PSYC 464 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Stroop Effect, Lemonade, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
9 Feb 2017
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Flow state: flow, flow refers to a state of effortless concentration so deep that people lose their sense of time, of themselves and of their problems, flow separates to two forms of effort: Self-control: flow states are effortful and are characterized by strong concentration but they don"t engage self-control (i. e. don"t have to control yourself to stay on the task). System 1: has more influence on behavior when system 2 is busy and it has a sweet tooth, when s2 is busy, people are more likely to: Use sexist language: make superficial judgments in social situations, depleted resource hypothesis (baumeister, 2007): Didn"t find a significant replication: association with glucose level, subjects performed a task that either requires self-control or not: Then they got lemonade with sugar or sweetener: At the end subjects performed the stroop task. Results: ego depletion, a state of diminished resources following the exertion of self-control (e. g. , justice is what the judge ate for breakfast).
