Taking Action

Question 1

Self regulation

Answer 1

Any conscious effort undertaken to alter behaviour

Require executive functions (cognitive process to organise + order behaviour)

Question 2

Self control

Answer 2

Capacity to override habitual response
Short term impairments in subsequent control
Gets tired like muscle
Can train it

Question 3

Ego depletion

Answer 3

Reduced will power predicts reduced self control

Self-control depleted after using a few times in a row

Question 4

Self-regulation

Answer 4

Implementation intentions
Specific plans
Failure -> not starting, derailing

Question 5

If then plans

Answer 5

Overcome habitual delay behaviour

Past predicts future

Question 6

Action/coping plans

Answer 6

Action; if then for initiating behaviour

Coping; if then for dealing with situations that threaten behaviour