Learning about the consequences of an action, such as lever pressing that produces an outcome. Tests of contingency and outcome devaluation help distinguish action–outcome control from habit-like responding.
A learned tendency to respond that can persist despite a change in the current value of the outcome. Devaluation insensitivity is informative only under conditions in which the outcome change is understood and performance is otherwise possible. It need not imply exceptionally rapid habit acquisition.[ref]
Disruption in the Balance Between Goal-Directed Behavior and Habit Learning in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Claire M. Gillan and others. American Journal of Psychiatry 168, 718–726; Method, instructed outcome devaluation and slips-of-action test
Action sensitive to both the relationship between an action and its outcome and the outcome's current value. Outcome devaluation and contingency manipulation provide operational tests, subject to task comprehension and performance limitations.
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