Talk:Automatic and controlled processes

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Lead Section

This first few lines, doesn't clarify much, what is article about. someone how does not know cognitive science, can easily feel lost at the end of first line itself. I think what need to be done is to use very simple words, that are used by everyone to explain instead of using technical words used by an expert. quickly points came to my mind are

• Lead section is too long.
• what is all such processes in the first line

better to read Cognitive science to get an idea about the kind of language and writing style required. --Vigyani

The two-process theory of detection, search, and attention (Schneider & Shiffrin, 1977; Shiffrin & Schneider, 1977) -- cogloader

(talk) 00:50, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

social psychology definition

Most of the automatic processing section goes off a definition that is from social psychology when automatic processing has to deal with cognitive psychology. I was thinking about taking all of what it said and rewriting it to fit more of a cognitive definition. There is a lot that is talked about that doesnt have anything to do with cognitition. Also another change was taking out the bobo doll experiment that experiment is focused more on social learning then it is automatic processing