In recent years, the feature-based approach to automaticity has increasingly defined automatic processes as uncontrolled, unintentional, autonomous, goal-independent, unconscious, efficient, fast, and purely stimulus-driven.
This hypothesis does not require conscious processing of the sexual content, as interference could involve unconscious (automatic) processes.
We suggest that even at an unconscious level ADT can lead to changed processing of sexually relevant stimuli, reflecting changes of cognitive and perceptive automatic processes.
Automatic processes operate effortlessly, and largely outside conscious control.
Technology gives us the ability to rely on automatic processes, and we are only too happy to do so.
Since 1935, Stroop's study has been cited over 13000 times and modified to look at all sorts of automatic processes.
Can brain science tell exactly where automatic processes end and self-directed "responsible" ones end?
"Our conscious life is guided by automatic processes - we may feel like we're in control, but it's not really the case".
Packaging economics require containers that are standardized in size and shape and that lend themselves to automatic processes.
Much of our behaviour, he writes, takes place "outside conscious awareness"; so government should "shift the focus of attention away from facts and information", and towards "automatic processes" and "altering the context in which people act".
Attempts to accommodate the selective and intensive aspects of attention and its links with both awareness and more automatic processes have led to the formulation of a number of "two-process" theories of attention.
