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Investigating the balance between goal-directed and habitual control in experimental and real-life settings

Do people differ in their propensity to form habits? The current study related individual differences in habitual performance on the slips-of-action task to habit formation in real life. To this end, we developed a novel key-cover procedure that controls for the amount of repetition and motivation w...

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Autores principales: Linnebank, Floris E., Kindt, Merel, de Wit, Sanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6105188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29426981
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-018-0313-6
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description Do people differ in their propensity to form habits? The current study related individual differences in habitual performance on the slips-of-action task to habit formation in real life. To this end, we developed a novel key-cover procedure that controls for the amount of repetition and motivation within a naturalistic setting. Participants received a key cover for the key to their home, which after several weeks was switched with a key cover that was previously attached to a dummy key. Participants recorded effort, time, attention, and mistakes in the key-selection process. Results were in line with established properties of habits, as attention decreased in the learning phase, yet effort, time, and mistakes increased after the key-cover switch. Performance on the slips-of-action task correlated negatively with changes in attention in the real-life key-cover task. This negative correlation may reflect that flexible behavioral adjustment requires more attention in people with a relatively weak goal-directed system. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.3758/s13420-018-0313-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-61051882018-08-30 Investigating the balance between goal-directed and habitual control in experimental and real-life settings Linnebank, Floris E. Kindt, Merel de Wit, Sanne Learn Behav Article Do people differ in their propensity to form habits? The current study related individual differences in habitual performance on the slips-of-action task to habit formation in real life. To this end, we developed a novel key-cover procedure that controls for the amount of repetition and motivation within a naturalistic setting. Participants received a key cover for the key to their home, which after several weeks was switched with a key cover that was previously attached to a dummy key. Participants recorded effort, time, attention, and mistakes in the key-selection process. Results were in line with established properties of habits, as attention decreased in the learning phase, yet effort, time, and mistakes increased after the key-cover switch. Performance on the slips-of-action task correlated negatively with changes in attention in the real-life key-cover task. This negative correlation may reflect that flexible behavioral adjustment requires more attention in people with a relatively weak goal-directed system. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.3758/s13420-018-0313-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2018-02-09 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6105188/ /pubmed/29426981 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-018-0313-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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