Self Regulation

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Self Regulation

• EDP 303

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What is Self Regulation

• Self Regulation is not Other Regulation
• Self Regulation IS Directing and controlling
  ones own actions.
• Two ways of looking at self-regulation
• Autonomous Regulation (Intrinsic motivation)
• Metacognition (Self-Regulated Learning)

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Self-Determination Theory

• Intrinsic motivation is
• The human Need to be competent and
  self-determining in relation to the environment
• Deci

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Intrinsic Motivation

• What kind of environment will Support
  Intrinsically Motivation?
• Relatedness
• Increasing sense of competence
• Autonomy
• How to injure intrinsic motivation.
• Controlling rewards
• Threats and deadlines
• Evaluation and surveillance

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Towards Autonomous Self Regulation

• External Regulation
• Will do something to avoid punishment or receive
  rewards.
• Introjected regulation
• Will do something out of guilt or obligation.
• Identified regulation
• Will do something because it will help them reach
  their own goals (getting good grades in math to
  get into business school).
• Integrated regulation (not intrinsic, but close
  enough)
• Will do something because it fits within their
  sense of self this is the kind of thing a person
  like me does I study because I am a good
  student.
• Note This type of regulation is all about the
  development of the self and identity!

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SUBFUNCTIONS OF SELF-REGULATION Metacognition
(213-216)

• Goal Setting
• Set a Standard of Comparison
• Self-observation
• Self Monitoring
• Self Instruction
• Self-talk
• Self Evaluation
• referential comparison- causal attribution
• Self-Reaction
• self-satisfaction, self-worth, distress
  adaptive/defensive

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Attributions

• Humans think about why people do what they do.
• Humans prescribe a locus of causality when they
  they about why people do what they do.
• People also spend time thinking about why they
  THEMSELVES do what they do.

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Rotter

• Peoples generalized beliefs about the contingency
  of reinforcement
• Rotter focuses on peoples beliefs about what
  causes them to receive or not receive rewards.
• Internal vs. External

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Weiner

• Weiner extended Rotter and argued that
  attributions could be categorized along THREE
  dimensions
• Controllable v. Uncontrollable
• Internal v. External
• Stable v. Unstable

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Attribution Dimensions
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Attributions for Success
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Attributions for Failure