This morning you awoke to the wonderful smell of cinnamon rolls cooking. Your roommate offers you one of these fresh baked delic
acies, but you choose the healthier option of oatmeal and fruit. When you get to class, you see that one of your classmates brought in doughnuts. Due to _________, you will have a harder time demonstrating restraint. a. analysis paralysis
b. diminishing returns
c. ego-depletion
d. decision exhaustion
The concept of ego depletion states that self-control is influenced by the amount of available mental energy, meaning the resources for self-control are limited. This way, it's possible to assume that a self-control requiring task will affect another similar situation in the future (the first task has depleted some of the "self-control energy" available).
Chunking could be described as when an individual breaks a whole lump of information into bits to be able to memorize them. The individual takes the information gradually from smaller groups to larger groups until they are being stored up in their memory. An example is storing phone numbers or bank accounts.
