| Title |
Investigating the balance between goal-directed and habitual control in experimental and real-life settings
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Learning & Behavior, February 2018
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| DOI | 10.3758/s13420-018-0313-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Floris E. Linnebank, Merel Kindt, Sanne de Wit |
| Abstract |
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. |
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| Student > Master | 20 | 16% |
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| Researcher | 13 | 10% |
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