Human Habit

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A Human Habit is an unconscious human behavior that is repeated regularly.



References

2015

  • (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/habit Retrieved:2015-1-4.
    • A habit (or wont) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously. [1] [2] [3] In the American Journal of Psychology (1903) it is defined in this way: "A habit, from the standpoint of psychology, is a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience." [4] Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks. Habits are sometimes compulsory. [5] The process by which new behaviours become automatic is habit formation. Old habits are hard to break and new habits are hard to form because the behavioural patterns we repeat are imprinted in our neural pathways, but it is possible to form new habits through repetition. [6] As behaviors are repeated in a consistent context, there is an incremental increase in the link between the context and the action. This increases the automaticity of the behavior in that context. [7] Features of an automatic behavior are all or some of: efficiency, lack of awareness, unintentionality, uncontrollability. [8]
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  2. Definition of Habit. Merriam Webster Dictionary. Retrieved on August 29, 2008.
  3. Definition of Habituation. Merriam Webster Dictionary. Retrieved on August 29, 2008
  4. Andrews, B. R. (1908). Habit. American Journal of Psychology, 14(2), 121-149. Available online, URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1412711.
  5. "Habituation." Animalbehavioronline.com. Retrieved on August 29, 2008.
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  7. Wood, W., & Neal, D. T. (2007). “A new look at habits and the habit-goal interface." Psychological Review, 114(4), 843–863. Available online, URL: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/rev-1144843.pdf.
  8. Bargh, J. A. (1994). “The four horsemen of automaticity: Awareness, intention, efficiency, and control in social cognition." In Wyer, R. S., & Srull, T. K. (Eds.), Handbook of social cognition: Vol. 1 Basic processes, pp. 1–40. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers