Measuring context–response associations that drive habits

IF 1.4 3区 心理学 Q4 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Jennifer S. Labrecque, Kristen M. Lee, Wendy Wood
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Abstract

People achieve important life outcomes of health, financial security, and productivity by repeating operant behavior. To identify whether such operants reflect goal pursuit or habit, the present research introduces a new paradigm that yields objective measures of learning and controls for the motivations of goal pursuit. In two experiments, participants practiced a sequential task of making sushi and then completed a test of the strength of cue–response (habit) associations in memory. Finally, they repeated the sushi task without instructions while under cognitive load (designed to impede deliberation about goals). As predicted, greater task practice yielded stronger cue–response associations, which in turn promoted task success. Practice did not improve performance by enhancing goal intentions or other task motivations. We conclude that repetition facilitates performance by creating mental associations that automatically activate practiced, habitual responses upon perception of recurring context cues.

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衡量驱动习惯的情境-反应关联。
通过重复操作行为,人们可以获得健康、财务安全和生产力等重要的生活成果。为了确定这些操作者反映的是目标追求还是习惯,本研究引入了一种新的范式,该范式产生了目标追求动机的学习和控制的客观测量。在两个实验中,参与者先练习做寿司的顺序任务,然后完成记忆中线索-反应(习惯)关联强度的测试。最后,他们在认知负荷(旨在阻碍对目标的思考)下,在没有指导的情况下重复了寿司任务。正如预测的那样,更多的任务练习产生了更强的线索反应关联,这反过来又促进了任务的成功。练习并不能通过增强目标意图或其他任务动机来提高表现。我们的结论是,重复通过创造心理联系来促进表现,这种联系会自动激活对反复出现的上下文线索的感知的练习,习惯性反应。
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CiteScore
3.90
自引率
14.80%
发文量
83
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior is primarily for the original publication of experiments relevant to the behavior of individual organisms.
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