Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0629 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Automatic Processing
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The idea
Automatic processing encodes information such as time, space, and frequency without conscious effort or intention.
In practice
A person can usually say where on a page they read something without having tried to note it.
Where people slip
Automatic processing is not free of limits. It runs without effort and captures only certain kinds of information.
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