automatiskitet
Automatiskitet (automaticity) is the property of performing a task with little conscious effort and often without deliberate thought, as a result of extensive practice or familiar cues. In cognitive psychology, automatic and controlled processes describe two ends of a continuum: automatic processes are fast, parallel, and require few attentional resources; controlled processes are slower, serial, and volitional. However, automatic processes are not necessarily unconscious; they can be partly conscious and can be modulated by goals and context.
Automaticity develops through practice. With repetition, stimulus–response mappings become proceduralized, responses become more fluent, and attentional
Evidence comes from reaction-time experiments and tasks such as the Stroop test, where reading a word interferes
Automaticity has implications for skill learning, safety, and design. Highly automatic skills free cognitive resources for