An illustrative implementation of reflectivity emerging from temporal dynamics and learning history Article Swipe
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· 2022
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v7y3q
· OA: W4223424326
Dual systems models have been highly influential and productive in generating research related to impulsive and reflective behaviour. However, there is also long-standing criticism of such models, and, in response, attempts have been made to find possible improvement in theoretical frameworks. The current study presents a simple abstraction of one such attempt, the Reinforcement and Reprocessing model of Reflectivity, or R3 model. Simulations were run to illustrate and explore the conceptual model. First, results demonstrated how a parameter controlling the speed of decay of a response threshold can, in interaction with other temporal dynamics, generate impulsive and reflective behaviour defined, not by qualitatively different systems, but by the time spent selecting a response. Second, it was shown how reinforcement history could train a system to be more versus less reflective versus impulsive based on its experience with response pressure. The results are discussed in terms of their use for illustrating alternative ways of thinking about dual systems and for generating new hypotheses.
