Automaticity

Examples of automaticity are common activities such as walking, speaking, bicycle-riding, assembly-line work, and driving a car (the last of these sometimes being termed "highway hypnosis").

For instance, stereotype activation has been described as an automatic process: it is unintentional and efficient, requiring little effort.

This is important for teachers because automaticity should be focused on in the early years to ensure higher level reading skills in adolescence.

Langer, Chanowitz, and Blank are convinced that most human behavior falls into automatic response patterns.

[9][10] However, when the request was made larger (20 pages instead of 5), subjects expected a sound reason before complying, as illustrated in the table.