Implementation Intention and Reminder Effects on Behavior Change in a Mobile Health System: A Predictive Cognitive Model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementation intentions are mental representations of simple plans to translate goal intentions into behavior under specific conditions. Studies show implementation intentions can produce moderate to large improvements in behavioral goal achievement. Human associative memory mechanisms have been implicated in the processes by which implementation intentions produce effects. On the basis of the adaptive control of thought-rational (ACT-R) theory of cognition, we hypothesized that the strength of implementation intention effect could be manipulated in predictable ways using reminders delivered by a mobile health (mHealth) app.

Objective

The aim of this experiment was to manipulate the effects of implementation intentions on daily behavioral goal success in ways pr

SUBMITTER: Pirolli P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5730820 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature