self-regulating

(adjective)

Describing something capable of controlling itself.

Examples of self-regulating in the following topics:

  • Self-Regulation and Volition

    • Some independent learners require little attention from their teachers.They know how to adopt learning strategies, they understand their competencies in specific domains, and will commit to their academic goals.These students have volition and can be described as "self-regulated" learners.Zimmerman (1989) pointed out that students can be described as self-regulated to the degree that they are metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviorally active participants in their own learning processes.Three assumptions are involved in the definition: self-regulated learning strategies, self-efficacy perceptions of skill performance, and a commitment to academic goals.
    • Schunk (Eds.), Self-regulation of learning and performance (pp. 229-254).Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    • Self-regulation is not a fixed characteristic of learners.Employing appropriate strategies can help learners to develop self-regulation and volition to learn.Zimmerman (1998) designed a table to compare experts' methods of self-regulation across different disciplines.Familiarity with these self-regulated methods is not only useful in learning, but once mastered, the techniques can be useful throughout life to function effectively in informal contexts.
    • Result: In general, self-regulated learners are aware of effective learning strategies for enhancing learning performance.
    • A social cognitive view of self-regulated academic learning., Journal of Educational Psychology, 81(3), p. 337.

  • Classical Theory

    • Self-regulating markets: classical theorists believed that free markets regulate themselves when they are free of any intervention.
    • Adam Smith referred to the market's ability to self-regulate as the "invisible hand" because markets move towards their natural equilibrium without outside intervention.

  • Socioemotional Development in Childhood

    • Childhood is a time of rapid emotional and social development, as children learn to regulate emotions and interact with others.
    • As children develop advanced language skills, they develop the ability to regulate emotions.
    • Emotional self-regulation refers to children's ability to monitor, evaluate, and modify their emotional reactions in any given situation.
    • A child's temperament has a large impact on emotional self-regulation: children who are more negatively focused tend to have a more difficult time with regulation than those who are focused on the positive aspects of life.

  • Government Regulation

    • the US Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy is an example of government regulation.
    • Regulation is the promulgation, monitoring, and enforcement of rules.
    • Regulation can take many forms: legal restrictions promulgated by a government authority, contractual obligations that bind many parties (e.g., "insurance regulations" that arise out of contracts between insurers and their insureds), self-regulation by an industry such as through a trade association, social regulation, co-regulation, third-party regulation, certification, accreditation, or market regulation.
    • Market failures - regulation due to inefficiency.
    • Interest group transfers - regulation that results from efforts by self-interest groups to redistribute wealth in their favor, which may be disguised as one or more of the justifications above.

  • Regulation and Antitrust Policy

    • A regulation is a legal provision with many possible functions.
    • Regulations take many forms, including legal restrictions from a government authority, contractual obligations, industry self-regulations, social regulations, co-regulations, and market regulations.
    • State, or governmental, regulation attempts to produce outcomes which might not otherwise occur.
    • Economists also occasionally develop regulation innovations, such as emissions trading.
    • Assess the balance the federal government attempts to strike between regulation and deregulation

  • Government Regulations

    • A regulation is a legal provision that creates, limits, or constrains a right, creates or limits a duty, or allocates a responsibility.
    • A regulation is a legal provision that creates, limits, or constrains a right, creates or limits a duty, or allocates a responsibility.
    • Regulation can take many forms: legal restrictions promulgated by a government authority, contractual obligations that bind many parties, self-regulation by an industry such as through a trade association, social regulation, co-regulation, or market regulation.
    • A number of regulations felt to be outdated were removed, most controversially the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.
    • In other words, the FCC has a strong role in regulating public airwaves .

  • Regulating Immune Tolerance

    • Immune tolerance of self and harmless antigens occurs by deleting B and T cells that recognize those antigens, often near mucosal surfaces.
    • The immune system has to be regulated to prevent wasteful, unnecessary responses to harmless substances and, more importantly, so that it does not attack "self."
    • The primary mechanism for developing immune tolerance to self-antigens occurs during the selection for weakly, self-binding cells during T and B lymphocyte maturation.
    • Any T or B lymphocytes that recognize harmless foreign or "self" antigens are deleted before they can fully mature into immunocompetent cells.
    • There are populations of T cells that suppress the immune response to self-antigens.

  • The Habit of Self-Government

    • In a self-governing colony such as Plymouth, elected rulers make most decisions without referring to the imperial power that nominally controls the colony.
    • A self-governing colony is a colony in which elected rulers are able to make most decisions without referring to the imperial power (such as England), with nominal control of the colony.
    • Colonies have sometimes been referred to as self-governing in situations where the executive has not been under the control of the imperial government; the term self-governing can refer to the direct rule of a Crown Colony by an executive governor elected under a limited franchise.
    • It was in essence, a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival.
    • In the 1730s, the Parliament began to pass laws regulating their colonies in the Americas.

  • Laissez-Faire Versus Government Intervention

    • As long as markets were free and competitive, he said, the actions of private individuals, motivated by self-interest, would work together for the greater good of society.
    • Government regulation of private industry can be divided into two categories -- economic regulation and social regulation.
    • Economic regulation seeks, primarily, to control prices.
    • For the last 25 years, liberals and conservatives alike have sought to reduce or eliminate some categories of economic regulation, agreeing that the regulations wrongly protected companies from competition at the expense of consumers.
    • Political leaders have had much sharper differences over social regulation, however.

  • The Role of Blood in the Body

    • Blood plays an important role in regulating the body's systems and maintaining homeostasis.
    • Coagulation, which is one part of the body's self-repair mechanism (blood clotting by the platelets after an open wound in order to stop bleeding)
    • Hydraulic functions, including the regulation of the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood