Instant Attraction: Immediate Action-Effect Bindings Occur for Both, Stimulus- and Goal-Driven Actions

Frontiers in Psychology

Markus Janczyk¹ 

关键词: ideomotor theory;    action planning;    free-choice;    forced-choice;    action-effects;    binding;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00446

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Flexible behavior is only possible if contingencies between own actions and following environmental effects are acquired as quickly as possible; and recent findings indeed point toward an immediate formation of action-effect bindings already after a single coupling of an action and its effect. The present study explored whether these short-term bindings occur for both, stimulus- and goal-driven actions (“forced-choice actions” vs. “free-choice actions”). Two experiments confirmed that immediate action-effect bindings are formed for both types of actions and affect upcoming behavior. These findings support the view that action-effect binding is a ubiquitous phenomenon which occurs for any type of action.

【 授权许可】

CC BY