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Underregulation

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failure to exert control

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Misregulation

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  • exerting control in a way that fails to produre the desired result
  • “set up” by underregulation
  • majority involve some kind of deficiency in self-knowledge
  • overgeneralization and over control
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Standard Deficits

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• Lack of Standards
• Multiple Standards that are in conflict or
incompatible
• False consensus effect

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False Consensus Effect

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Overestimation of the numbers of people involved in a particular behavior
The “Everybody’s doing it” effect

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Monitoring Failure

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  • Deindividuation

* Disinhibition

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Deindividuation

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loss of self-awareness and evaluation

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Disinhibition

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to remove inhibitions or to remove a suppression of an action, emotion or thought

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Strength Failure

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  • Inability to make oneself conform to the relevant standard
  • Self-stopping
  • 3 reasons for strength failure: chronic, temporary and external weaknesses
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3 Main Reasons for Inadequate Strength

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  • Chronic weakness- lack of ego control
  • Temporary weakness- fatigue, stress and negative emotions
  • Externally-mediated weakness- unlimited access
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Ego Control

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capability of controlling ones impulses, desires, and actions

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Zero Tolerance Beliefs

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no misstep, no violation, can be allowed, because it will lead almost inevitably to disaster

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Abstinence Violation Effect

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indulging in

activities one has forbidden oneself leads to large scale indulgence

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Acquiescence

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-consciously abandoning self-regulation

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Psychological Inertia

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  • longer someone is doing something, the
    more difficult it is to stop
    1. Zeigarnik Effect
    2. Implication
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Transcendence Deficits

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  • Renegade attention

* Transcendence failure

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Renegade Attention

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loss of control of attention such that a tempting stimulus manages to capture the person’s attention

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Transcendence Failure

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  1. Inability to see beyond the immediate stimulus environment
  2. To escape from emotional distress, people may shift toward more immediate and less meaningful styles of thinking
  3. Negative self-appraisal lead to “cognitive narrowing”
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Overgeneralization

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  • people assume what works for one problem in one setting will work in others
    1. Starts with a deficiency in knowledge, especially self-knowledge
    2. People feel better indulging in drugs but drugs make their mood worse
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Over Control

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-The desire to believe that one can control
when one cannot
1. Trying control things that are not controllable believe that one can exert control when one cannot
2. Emotional focusing- focusing particularly on controlling one’s emotions rather than on controlling whatever is the primary concern

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Standards Monitoring Strength

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Underregulation–> failure

Misregulation<– over doing

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Transcendence

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seeing beyond the immediate stimulus environment

22
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Rumination

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meditation, reflective consideration (chewing your cud) to the extreme

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Zeigarnik Effect

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-particularly difficult to

interrupt a response sequence in the middle

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Implication

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-self-regulation most effective if instigated as early as possible