The Impact Of Short-term Loss Of Control On Subsequent Task Processing

The researchers found that individuals who experienced temporary loss of control experienced an increase in task performance upon completion of subsequent cognitive tasks,which they believed was mainly mediated by control motivation.Based on the reactancehelplessness integration model and the objective self-awareness theory combined with previous studies on long-term loss of control,we supposed that self-awareness acts as the mediator between the brief period of loss of control and subsequent task performance.Specifically,after experiencing a short period of loss of control,an individual will be aware of the difference between the real self and the psychological standard,causing negative experience.In order to avoid such negative experience,the individual's level of self-perception will decline,and then cognitive resources will be directed from the inside to the external environment or the current task,making the task performance gain.Based on this assumption,we designed a pilot experiment and two formal experiments.In the pilot experiment,we designed a prime task for the participants to be in a state of temporary loss of control,laying a foundation for the follow-up experiment.Experiment 1 tested the mediating effect of self-awareness level between temporary loss of control and task performance to prove that self-awareness does play a role in experiencing temporary loss of control and task performance gain.Experiment 2 is a test of the interaction between self-awareness and control priming,which proves the conclusion of experiment 1 from another perspective.At the same time,we are in the process of experiment and experiment 2 by neural electrophysiological techniques to observe each start under the condition of the participants in processing and subsequent cognitive tasks P2,N2,P300,ERN and Pe these a few characteristics of electrical components and the differences between groups.To further understand the role of self-awareness and how the self regulates and allocates resources in different situations from the perspectives of attention,expectation and error processingThe results showed that:1.The level of individual self-awareness drops slightly after experiencing a brief loss of control.2.The level of self-awareness is completely mediating between the temporary loss of control and the performance of follow-up tasks.3.Task performance declines when individuals who experience a brief loss of control are placed in an environment that increases self-awareness.4.When completing the color discrimination task,participants in the controllable group were more likely to expect the occurrence of the red-yellow circle,while those in the uncontrolled group were more likely to expect the occurrence of the green-green circle.There was no difference between the controllable group and the uncontrolled group in the automatic monitoring of the error response and the level of consciousness.5.When completing the color discrimination task,increasing self-awareness will have different effects on individuals with different control experiences.Participants in the self-awareness group who did not experience a brief loss of control had the same expectations for all the circles.In the middle processing stage,the input of cognitive resources increased and the level of automatic monitoring of error response increased.The processing strategies of the participants in the self-awareness group who experienced a short period of loss of control were not clear.In the early stage of processing,the cognitive resource investment was reduced and the awareness of the false response was weakened.This study has theoretical and practical significance in understanding the stress response represented by loss of control and the changes in brain and behavioral patterns caused by maladjustment.