Precrastination

Quick meaning: Precrastination is a noun meaning (psychology) The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.

Meaning

(psychology) The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.

Example Sentences

Lanyun Gong and Cory Potts, the two students with whom I did this work, and I conducted a number of experiments to check our precrastination interpretation.

It is foreseeable that if we do not enjoy the process involved in completing a task, we will choose procrastination or precrastination to minimize the time we need to spend to do a task.

My colleagues and I called this tendency “precrastination.” The term was meant to connote the opposite of procrastination, the tendency to put off until later what you can do right away. Pre-crastination is the tendency to do too soon what might be better done later.

The precrastination effect is the finding that individuals complete actions earlier to "get it out of the way" (Rosenbaum, Gong, & Potts, 2014). In the current study, we tested precrastination with a prospective memory (PM) paradigm to determine if this phenomenon generalizes to PM tasks that can be completed at a time chosen by the participant.

Word Forms

• precrastinations
• pre-crastination

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pre-crastination, procrastination, prevenience, preoptimization, precocity, precociousness.

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