Procesări automate versus controlate, preatenţionale versus postatenţionale; redundanţă terminologică sau realităţi distincte?
Automatic vs. controlled, preattentional vs. postattentional processing; terminological redundance or different realities?

Summary/Abstract: Very frequent in psychological literature, terms as automatic, unconscious and preattentional are used as synonymous. But do these different words have the same meaning? Than why do we use all of them? Or are them different realities? The rows below are a synthetic article that intends to clarify this point by analyzing different perspectives on automaticity. In response, we concluded that the superposition between the mentioned concepts is only partial, depending on the particular type of task in use. Finally, qualitative and quantitative differences between automatic versus controlled processing are argued.

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