The Law of Recency: An Episodic Stimulus-Response Retrieval Account of Habit Acquisition

A habit is a regularity in automatic responding to a specific situation. Classical learning psychology explains the emergence of habits by an extended learning history during which the response becomes associated to the situation (learning of stimulus-response associations) as a function of practice...

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Main Authors: Carina G. Giesen, James R. Schmidt, Klaus Rothermund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02927/full