The Strength Model of Self-Control
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Frequently Asked Questions (15)
Q2. What are the future works in "The strength model of self-control" ?
Identifying the biological substrates of self-control depletion ( and replenishment ) would be another helpful direction for further work.
Q3. What is the role of psychology in society?
Psychology can contribute to society by finding ways to enable people to live healthier, more successful, and more satisfying lives.
Q4. What are the functional purposes of the self?
The functional purposes of the self almost certainly include managing behavior toward fostering enlightened self-interest and facilitating group membership by garnering social acceptance.
Q5. What does the author mean by the word self?
The existence of a single energy resource that is used for a broad range of self-control acts suggests that self theory must move beyondmerely cognitive models.
Q6. What was the use of energy in psychology?
During the heyday of the behaviorist and cognitive revolutions, however, psychology had little use for theorizing in energy terms, and self theories in particular had scarcely mentioned energy since Freud.
Q7. What is the implication of the self-control hypothesis?
The implication was that effortful self-regulation depends on a limited resource that becomes depleted by any acts of self-control, causing subsequent performance even on other self-control tasks to become worse.
Q8. What is the effect of offering cash incentives?
Offering cash incentives or other motives for good performance counteracts the effects of ego depletion (Muraven & Slessareva, 2003).
Q9. What is the significance of the muscle analogy?
the muscle analogy is relevant: Mildly tired athletes can indeed manage to summon the strength for a major exertion at decisive moments, but after a certain point fatigue becomes insurmountable.
Q10. What is the reason for the ego-depletion effects?
These ego-depletion effects are not due to a diminished a sense of self-efficacy or to the inference that one is poor at self-control.
Q11. Why did Wallace and Baumeister (2002) study the ego-depletion patterns?
Norare these patterns due to participants refusing to exert themselves on the second task because they think they have done enough on the first task, as various findings have shown (see Baumeister, Gailliot, DeWall, & Oaten, 2006); for example, it has been found that depleted participants will subject themselves to more boredom than will nondepleted ones on a second task.
Q12. What do laypersons understand as free will?
These seem to correspond to what laypersons understand as ‘‘free will,’’ namely the ability to override impulses, behave morally, show initiative, and behave according to rational choices (Baumeister, in press).
Q13. What is the role of energy in the evolution of the human self?
the authors may infer that, to enable humans to create and sustain the complicated groups to which they belong, including cultural systems, evolution had to find a way to use the body’s energy to control behavior in these advanced and subtle ways.
Q14. What is the link between self-control and behavioral problems?
Inadequate self-control has been linked to behavioral and impulse-control problems, including overeating, alcohol and drug abuse, crime and violence, overspending, sexually impulsive behavior, unwanted pregnancy, and smoking (e.g., Baumeister, Heatherton, & Tice, 1994; Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990; Tangney, Baumeister, & Boone, 2004; Vohs & Faber, 2007).
Q15. What is the meaning of the word self-control?
The idea that self-control depended on a limited energy resource was suggested by us (Baumeister et al., 1994) based on their review of multiple research literatures.