Learning Habits: Does Overtraining Lead to Resistance to New Learning?

We explore the development of habitual responding within the colour-word contingency learning paradigm, in which participants respond to the colour of neutral words. Each word is most often presented in one colour. Learning is indicated by faster responses to the colour when the word is presented in...

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Main Authors: James R. Schmidt, Jan De Houwer, Agnes Moors
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2020-04-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/320