automaticity

toc = = = = = = = Definition: =

The ability to recall information from long-term memory without effort. Gen Psych, Chapter 6, p. 172

= Examples: = When children can respond "49" to the question "How much is 7 times 7?" without thinking about it, they have achieved automatically with respect to that particular piece of information. Chapter 9 p. 225

= Analogies: = Think of your memory as a jungle with which the animals that live in the jungle are our memory's, the jungle has a meadow which is our short-term memory the jungle part is our long-term memory, the jungle has two rules: every memory animal must enter threw the short term memory; once a memory animal has pasted threw the meadow and into the jungle it stays in the jungle forever.

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