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What are behaviors that have apparently been repeated enough times to become automatic?
Habits
Given a new situation where you do not know what to do, naturally you use trial and error and make conscious decisions, occasionally stumbling on something that works. Over time, the useless actions fade away, and the more useful actions that work get reinforced. This is a description of what?
Habits forming
What might be called automatic solutions to regular problems?
Habits
What might be considered reliable solutions to recurring problems in our environment?
Habits
What are like cognitive scripts that can be followed automatically when the situation is appropriate, memories of steps you previously followed to solve problems in the past?
Habits
What are useful because they reduce cognitive load to allocate attention to other tasks?
Habits
What four steps are the backbone of every habit and can be translated into laws for building habits?
Cue, craving, response, reward
What is the step related to a habit where some information that predicts a reward is close is noticed?
Cue
What is the step in a habit where there is a reason to act (an interpretation of a cue)?
Craving
What is the step related to a habit which is the performance of the habit?
Response
What is the step related to a habit which is the end goal of the habit (what is delivered by the response)?
Reward
What are the two purposes of the rewards in habit performing/forming?
They satisfy us and they teach us (which actions are worth remembering in the future)
To make a good habit, what should you make the cue?
Obvious
To make a good habit, what should you make the craving?
Attractive
To make a good habit, what should you make the response?
Easy
To make a good habit, what should you make the reward?
Satisfying
To break a bad habit, what should you make the cue?
Invisible
To break a bad habit, what should you make the craving?
Unattractive
To break a bad habit, what should you make the response?
Difficult
To break a bad habit, what should you make the reward?
Unsatisfying
The backbone of every [...] is four steps: [...], [...], [...], and [...].
The backbone of every habit is four steps: cue, craving, response, and reward.
A [...] is a behavior that has been repeated enough times to become automatic.
A habit is a behavior that has been repeated enough times to become automatic.