Is there a succinct way to describe how habits versus skills are learned? Is the idea that a habit has no cognitive component, or a light cognitive component, it's just the environment?
I think of a habit as a stimulus-response pair. I finish the warmup and I think "do I have any announcements today?" I leave the house and grab my phone. I come into class and grab a handout off the table by the door. When Mr. Kane asks me to try a question I sit there and stare into space until someone tells me the answer. Habits can involve knowledge, but they're fundamentally a stimulus and a response.
Skills are about accumulating knowledge. It's not a single stimulus-response pair (though it might include stimulus-response pairs, like 4x2=8, etc), it's a connected network of lots of pieces of knowledge that can be applied to problems.
I'm not sure how I could characterize the cognitive component, but the reason I'm emphasizing the environment is that I want to make a change to the stimulus-response pair.
Is there a succinct way to describe how habits versus skills are learned? Is the idea that a habit has no cognitive component, or a light cognitive component, it's just the environment?
I think of a habit as a stimulus-response pair. I finish the warmup and I think "do I have any announcements today?" I leave the house and grab my phone. I come into class and grab a handout off the table by the door. When Mr. Kane asks me to try a question I sit there and stare into space until someone tells me the answer. Habits can involve knowledge, but they're fundamentally a stimulus and a response.
Skills are about accumulating knowledge. It's not a single stimulus-response pair (though it might include stimulus-response pairs, like 4x2=8, etc), it's a connected network of lots of pieces of knowledge that can be applied to problems.
I'm not sure how I could characterize the cognitive component, but the reason I'm emphasizing the environment is that I want to make a change to the stimulus-response pair.
Do you think that's a reasonable distinction?
I think this makes sense!