Juanita started her job as a teller at a bank two years ago. At first, she was very careful and deliberate using the computer’s
number keys when she entered the amounts for deposits into customer accounts. Now, she enters numbers rapidly without even turning her eyes toward the keyboard. This is an example of___.
In psychology, automatic processing is a phenomenon that occurs when<u> a person can do a process without actually putting attention to it, in a mechanical way </u>and without it interfering other tasks that the person might be doing. This happens often when a person is faced with a repetitive task for a considerable amount of time.
In this example, Juanita started as a teller at a bank two years ago, first she was very careful and deliberate using the computer's number keys but now she enters them rapidly without even turning her eyes to the keyboard. We can observe that <u>this process is done now in a mechanical way since Juanita has done it so many times already and she doesn't really put attention to it or interferes with her other tasks.</u> Therefore, this is an example of automatic processing.
