Actions and Habits¶
Dickinson, A. (1985). Actions and Habits: The Development of Behavioural Autonomy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 308(1135), 67-78.
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- Habit
- This last is the diagnostic that separates habits from goal-directed action — if you change the reward and the behavior persists, it is habitual; if it adjusts, it was goal-directed.
This sourceEstablishes outcome devaluation as the diagnostic distinguishing habitual (devaluation-insensitive) from goal-directed action.
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Dickinson sets out the revaluation test the sentence describes. Performance that "changes appropriately following an alteration in the value of the goal or reward without further experience of the instrumental relationship" counts as purposive action, whereas a stimulus-response account fits "an activity whose performance is autonomous of the current value of the goal". Sensitivity or insensitivity to a changed reward is what separates the two. The work qualifies the diagnostic that the sentence states flatly, reporting devaluation sensitivity in rats after limited but not extended training, and autonomy as depending on degradation of the performance-reward correlation.
“If the anim al’s performance changes appropriately following an alteration in the value of the goal or reward without further experience of the instrumental relationship, the behaviour should be regarded as a purposive action. On the other hand, the stimulus-response model is more appropriate for an activity whose performance is autonomous of the current value of the goal.”
- This last is the diagnostic that separates habits from goal-directed action — if you change the reward and the behavior persists, it is habitual; if it adjusts, it was goal-directed.
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