Over the past several years, the concept of automaticity of higher cognitive processes has permeated nearly all domains of psychological research. Automaticity refers to control of one's internal psychological processes by external stimuli and events in one's immediate environment, often without knowledge or awareness. Automatic phenomena are usually contrasted with those processes that are consciously or intentionally put into operation. Cognition is a term referring to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension. These cognitive processes include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging and problem solving. These are higher-level functions of the brain and encompass language, imagination, perception and planning. Automaticity does not result exclusively from a process of skill acquisition in which a process always begins as a conscious and deliberate one for becoming capable of automatic operation only with frequent use.

Yogita Parihar

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