PSY326H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mindset, Electrodermal Activity, Cognitive Dissonance
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No pain, no gain: how distress underlies e ective self-control (and unites diverse social. Psychological phenomena) pain, distress, and anxiety is unpleasant; people are motivated to avoid it and learn it via mechanics of negative reinforcement learning a ect alarm model of self-control: anxious distress can be adaptive. Only by exibly accepting their distress, people can listen and make necessary behavioural correction distress can only recruit adaptive responses (i. e. ; self control) distress is a necessary but not su cient ingredient of self-control (need to be emotionally accepting) Bis that regulates con ict that arise within and b/w the other. 2 systems. control system since, when it detects goal con icts, overrides or inhibits all ongoing behaviour while organism attempts to resolve con ict to determine best course of action. Ern may thus re ect not only detection of an error but also the averse a ect that accompanies such detection i detection of error:
