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This is a 6 page paper that provides an overview of self-regulation. The role of self-regulation in learning, addiction, and business is examined. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to the discipline of psychology, it has become increasingly important as a topic of discussion outside that discipline as well. In the first decade of the 21st century, self-regulation has
emerged as a critical component of theories in learning, as well as human resources and business. For this reason, new understandings of self-regulation and how to measure it are emerging
from previously unlikely sources, and providing new insights through which the psychological concept of self-regulation may be meaningfully examined. As it stands, the principle of self-regulation as it relates to
psychology is that self-regulation is a biological factor stemming from activity in the amygdala and its role in the detection of risk and the manifestation of risk-adverse behavior. However, insights
from self-regulation in learning, substance abuse, and human resources shed new light on other sociological and contextual factors which may exert just as much of an impact over self-regulation in
the long run. This paper will explore these new insights through examining literature as well as the occasional appeal to a test subject who demonstrates each insight in a practical
context. The first major departure from pure psychological study of self-regulation is the role that self-regulation plays in learning and academics. As the field of self-regulation in learning
has emerged, an entirely new theory of self-regulated learning has manifested, in which pedagogy is recast as a more bilateral process wherein the individual participates in the learning process actively
as much as the educator does. In terms of how this impacts curricula, one begins to realize how self-regulation extends to the choice-related aspects of academia, such as what classes
a student will take, what subjects he or she will learn, and so on. While these choices are already granted in some respect to students at higher academic levels, there
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