Can you explain what the diagram means? I haven’t been able to come up with a good guess as to what the arrows mean, or how the principles govern what.
It’s been a bit since I’ve researched this stuff, so I’ll do my best:
The right hand side of the diagram represents the social cognitive theory of Albert Bandura, which applies mostly to our Long term planning brain (What I now think of as system 2)
Essentially, it’s saying that we have thoughts, which can affect our behaviors and and our perception of our environment. The thoughts can also be affected by our behaviors and our environment. Finally, our thoughts can effect how we use our behaviors to change our environment, and vice versa.
What this means is that we can use this mode of our brain take the long term view, using introspection to choose our behaviors and shape our environments such that we can ultimately achieve our goals. This is great for planning and stopping destructive behaviors.
It also suggests that the way to change our actions when in this mode is to change our environments and change our thought patterns.
The left side represents behaviorism, encompassing the instinctual processes of operant and classical conditioning (what I now know as system 1).
The arrows show how everything is caused by a stimulus, which either causes us to find that an action leads up to a result (classical conditioning), or causes us to associate an action with a positive or negative result (operant conditioning).′
What this means is that we can use this mode of our brain when we need immediate instincts on something because we’re under a time crunch, or we need to get ourselves to take immediate action. It’s great for time limited activities (social interactions, sports), as well as when we want to take action immediately (beat procrastination).
It also means that if we want to change our behavior when in this mode, we should work to change either our immediate stimuli, or our immediate rewards/punishments.
The top and bottom represent the mutual laws that govern both modes. The Profit of Action Principle says that they both want to get the most reward they can, the principle of least effort says that they both want to do as little as possible to get it.
What this means is that no matter which mode we’re in, our natural state is to be productive/lazy (which are essentially synonyms with different connotations.).
The trick is that both modes perceive different things to be effortful, and different things to be rewarding (and also react differently when you throw time in the mix).
I didn’t describe the differences on the diagram, but the key is that knowing the differences, you can work to switch between the two modes depending on which mode views your desired action as most rewarding and least effortful. Alternatively, if you don’t want to do an action, choose the system that makes the action least rewarding and most effortful.
The center of diagram shows how to switch between the two modes. The short term brain is mostly concerned with the body and the emotions, so the easiest way to switch to it is to provoke strong emotions or use exercise.
The long term brain is mostly concerned with thinking and judging (as bad or good), so the easiest way to switch to it is to turn logical or focus on our values.
Hope that helps. I just reread that and realized it’s pretty difficult to follow, so let me know if you need any clarification.
Can you explain what the diagram means? I haven’t been able to come up with a good guess as to what the arrows mean, or how the principles govern what.
It’s been a bit since I’ve researched this stuff, so I’ll do my best:
The right hand side of the diagram represents the social cognitive theory of Albert Bandura, which applies mostly to our Long term planning brain (What I now think of as system 2)
Essentially, it’s saying that we have thoughts, which can affect our behaviors and and our perception of our environment. The thoughts can also be affected by our behaviors and our environment. Finally, our thoughts can effect how we use our behaviors to change our environment, and vice versa.
What this means is that we can use this mode of our brain take the long term view, using introspection to choose our behaviors and shape our environments such that we can ultimately achieve our goals. This is great for planning and stopping destructive behaviors.
It also suggests that the way to change our actions when in this mode is to change our environments and change our thought patterns.
The left side represents behaviorism, encompassing the instinctual processes of operant and classical conditioning (what I now know as system 1).
The arrows show how everything is caused by a stimulus, which either causes us to find that an action leads up to a result (classical conditioning), or causes us to associate an action with a positive or negative result (operant conditioning).′
What this means is that we can use this mode of our brain when we need immediate instincts on something because we’re under a time crunch, or we need to get ourselves to take immediate action. It’s great for time limited activities (social interactions, sports), as well as when we want to take action immediately (beat procrastination).
It also means that if we want to change our behavior when in this mode, we should work to change either our immediate stimuli, or our immediate rewards/punishments.
The top and bottom represent the mutual laws that govern both modes. The Profit of Action Principle says that they both want to get the most reward they can, the principle of least effort says that they both want to do as little as possible to get it.
What this means is that no matter which mode we’re in, our natural state is to be productive/lazy (which are essentially synonyms with different connotations.).
The trick is that both modes perceive different things to be effortful, and different things to be rewarding (and also react differently when you throw time in the mix).
I didn’t describe the differences on the diagram, but the key is that knowing the differences, you can work to switch between the two modes depending on which mode views your desired action as most rewarding and least effortful. Alternatively, if you don’t want to do an action, choose the system that makes the action least rewarding and most effortful.
The center of diagram shows how to switch between the two modes. The short term brain is mostly concerned with the body and the emotions, so the easiest way to switch to it is to provoke strong emotions or use exercise.
The long term brain is mostly concerned with thinking and judging (as bad or good), so the easiest way to switch to it is to turn logical or focus on our values.
Hope that helps. I just reread that and realized it’s pretty difficult to follow, so let me know if you need any clarification.