Self-regulation

Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and adjust behavior, attention, or emotion in response to goals, standards, and changing conditions.

Feedback control: A process that uses information about outcomes to adjust a system’s behavior. Self-regulation uses feedback about progress to correct behavior toward a goal.
Self-control: The capacity to restrain impulses or persist despite immediate temptation or discomfort. Self-control is one way self-regulation manages conflict between immediate and longer-term aims.
Self-regulated learning: An approach to learning in which learners plan, monitor, and evaluate their own study and progress. It applies regulation to academic goals, strategies, and learning outcomes.
Psychological homeostasis: The maintenance of psychological states within a relatively stable range despite disturbances. Self-regulation may pursue changing goals rather than restore a stable internal set point.
Executive functions: Cognitive processes that support planning, holding information in mind, and controlling attention and action. These capacities help keep goals active and interrupt actions that conflict with them.
Attention control: The ability to direct and sustain attention while resisting distraction. Regulating attention helps behavior remain aligned with a chosen goal.
Behavioral self-management: The use of self-monitoring and planned strategies to change one’s own behavior. It turns self-regulation into structured behavior-change practices.
Trait theory: An approach to personality that explains behavior through relatively enduring individual characteristics. Traits describe stable tendencies, while self-regulation emphasizes adjustment across situations and goals.
Inhibitory control: The capacity to suppress a prepotent response or resist interference. It supports self-regulation when an immediate impulse conflicts with a goal.
Working memory: A limited-capacity system for temporarily maintaining and manipulating information. It can keep goals and relevant rules available while actions unfold.

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