PSY202: ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT
6/20/2014
JASON PIERATT
Self-Regulation of a Robot
As a youngster, self-regulation can be hard. There's no trained thought or experience to back up our actions or emotions. As an adolescent I lacked emotion in extreme conditions. As I got older I grew a conscience. By choice, I chose to retain the ability to not feel emotion in extreme situations. Since I got older it’s a little harder to contain emotion so I find myself retaining emotion. There are a lot of situations where emotion has no place, and if it does its unnecessary. This ability has helped me to stay focused on set goals and save potential wasted time. Now you may think that I move and act and like a heartless robot, quite the contrary. Through logic, most people expect you at react a certain way to certain situations. When a situation that occurs involving emotional respond I put on an act just so it does not look abnormal. What I am trying to get at is, my self-regulation skills have met a new level where it is bold to say I lack emotion cognitive response. Therefore most of my actions are very logical and less rational. Could you imagine trying to upset someone that just never shows you the gratification of an emotional response? In my experience people hate it.
The way I think I believe to be very logical. I remember telling myself as a teenager, "emotions do more bad than good", and i still believe that. Now I love feeling happy, secure and balanced these emotions are beneficial so I encourage them. When it comes to my education, besides my mother drilling me every chance she got about college, I understood that my studies now will pay off in the future. This cited text could not have said it better, through advanced self-regulation “It is involved in the delay of gratification". This type of self-regulation is mastered as we get older into our adulthood. It means that during the process of meta-cognition I