Title: Mental and Physical Tasks
Principle Investigator: Maryliah Leaverton
Co-Investigators: Alison Novosel, Evan Strandberg, and Nicholas Louie
Abstract
60 male and female undergraduate college students were selected to participate. Participants completed an elastic band resistance task and a Stroop task to achieve physical and cognitive depletion. Participants also listened to an uplifting song as a way of replenishing self-regulation. The study involved 4 conditions: depleted, positive, depleted, no affect, non-depleted, positive and non-depleted, no affect. It was hypothesized that those in high-depleted self-regulation and positive affect mood state condition would perform better on the resistance band exercise task than those in the …show more content…
Because listening to music is considered a stimulus, it can often be used to regulate emotion. For instance, a study by Takada and Tanaka (2000), reported that individuals experience less fatigue during an aerobic dance session when music is being played, as opposed to a no-music condition (Bray, Oliver, Graham, Martin Ginis, 2013). It is also common for people to listen to music while performing self-regulation activities, such as exercising and working on certain tasks. In this context, self-regulation, also known as self-control, refers to overriding a certain emotion, thought or behavior, thus replacing it with another (Bray, 2013). Similarly, expending self-control on a task often leads to depletion of self-control abilities on other similar tasks (Bray, 2013). Therefore, depletion often occurs when an individual exhausts his or her supply of self-control. Consequently, the individual’s later attempts to maintain self-control will be impaired (Bray et al). Considering the benefits of listening to uplifting music, one could suggest that instilling a positive mood in individuals by listening to music may diminish the effects of self-control depletion after physical …show more content…
Handgrip persistence tasks, where participants squeeze a handgrip as long as they can, are frequently used as a physical depletion task (Xu, Demos, Leahey, Hart, Trautvetter, Coward, 2014). Stroop tasks are often used to encourage cognitive depletion within individuals. While there are various modifications to this task, participants generally view color words that appear one at a time in a dissimilar color (Xu, 2014). The combination of these two tasks allows experimenters to accurately deplete their participants cognitively and
Principle Investigator: Maryliah Leaverton
Co-Investigators: Alison Novosel, Evan Strandberg, and Nicholas Louie
Abstract
60 male and female undergraduate college students were selected to participate. Participants completed an elastic band resistance task and a Stroop task to achieve physical and cognitive depletion. Participants also listened to an uplifting song as a way of replenishing self-regulation. The study involved 4 conditions: depleted, positive, depleted, no affect, non-depleted, positive and non-depleted, no affect. It was hypothesized that those in high-depleted self-regulation and positive affect mood state condition would perform better on the resistance band exercise task than those in the …show more content…
Because listening to music is considered a stimulus, it can often be used to regulate emotion. For instance, a study by Takada and Tanaka (2000), reported that individuals experience less fatigue during an aerobic dance session when music is being played, as opposed to a no-music condition (Bray, Oliver, Graham, Martin Ginis, 2013). It is also common for people to listen to music while performing self-regulation activities, such as exercising and working on certain tasks. In this context, self-regulation, also known as self-control, refers to overriding a certain emotion, thought or behavior, thus replacing it with another (Bray, 2013). Similarly, expending self-control on a task often leads to depletion of self-control abilities on other similar tasks (Bray, 2013). Therefore, depletion often occurs when an individual exhausts his or her supply of self-control. Consequently, the individual’s later attempts to maintain self-control will be impaired (Bray et al). Considering the benefits of listening to uplifting music, one could suggest that instilling a positive mood in individuals by listening to music may diminish the effects of self-control depletion after physical …show more content…
Handgrip persistence tasks, where participants squeeze a handgrip as long as they can, are frequently used as a physical depletion task (Xu, Demos, Leahey, Hart, Trautvetter, Coward, 2014). Stroop tasks are often used to encourage cognitive depletion within individuals. While there are various modifications to this task, participants generally view color words that appear one at a time in a dissimilar color (Xu, 2014). The combination of these two tasks allows experimenters to accurately deplete their participants cognitively and