Dreisbach, Gesine and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz T. (2014) Don't Do It Again! Directed Forgetting of Habits. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 25 (6). pp. 1242-1248. ISSN 0956-7976, 1467-9280
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Most daily routines are determined by habits. However, the experienced ease and automaticity of habit formation and execution come at a cost when habits that are no longer appropriate must be overcome. So far, proactive and reactive control strategies that prevent inappropriate habit execution either by preparation or "on the fly" have been identified. Here, we present evidence for a third, retroactive control strategy. In two experiments using the list method of directed forgetting, the accessibility of newly learned and practiced stimulus-response rules was significantly reduced when participants were cued to forget the rules rather than to remember them. The results thus show that directed forgetting, so far observed and investigated only for episodic memory traces, can also be applied to habits. The findings further emphasize the adaptive value of forgetting and can be taken as evidence of a retroactive strategy of habit control.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COGNITIVE CONTROL; 2 FACES; MEMORY; IMPLICIT; INTEGRATION; MECHANISMS; RETRIEVAL; EXPLICIT; RULES; habit; cognitive control; directed forgetting; response compatibility |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2019 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2019 09:38 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/10060 |
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