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automaticity Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... The ability to perform a task by automatic processing , independent of conscious control and attention. Strong automaticity is almost entirely automatic and can be carried out without attention . Partial automaticity refers to processing that can be performed without conscious control, but which is performed better with...
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The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
...stimuli. Views of automaticity. According to the dual‐mode view , also called the all‐or‐none view , processes are either automatic or non‐automatic. Automatic processes hold all automatic features; non‐automatic processes hold all non‐automatic features. It has become clear, however, that the dual‐mode view is incorrect. Studies have demonstrated that most processes possess a combination of automatic and non‐automatic features. Evidence from *Stroop studies, for instance, suggests that the processing of word meaning is automatic in that it does not...
Automaticity in Political Decision Making Reference library
Efrén Pérez and Isaac Riddle
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making
...can be weakly automatic, strongly automatic, or somewhere in between. Because all cognition displays one, some, or all of these four traits to a certain extent, the onus is on researchers who study automaticity to specify and corroborate its presence. For Bargh’s ( 1994 ) part, he stipulated that automaticity is differentiated, first, by its unintentional nature. That is, people do not voluntarily engage an automatic process; rather, it transpires spontaneously, without the mind’s conscious permission. Once initiated, however, an automatic process is...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... adj. (of a firearm) self-loading and able to fire continuously until the ammunition is exhausted or the pressure on the trigger is released. n. a gun that continues firing until the ammunition is exhausted or the pressure on the trigger is...
automatic control Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...automatic control ( automatic regulation ) The control of a plant using a control...
Automatic writing Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... writing An alternative term for spirit writing...
automatic vending Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... vending Selling products by means of vending...
automatic controls Quick reference
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... controls Electrical or mechanical devices that are capable of operating items of equipment automatically according to predefined...
spatulator, automatic Quick reference
A Dictionary of Dentistry (2 ed.)
...spatulator, automatic n. A mechanical device for mixing ingredients to form a homogeneous...
automatic stabilizers Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... stabilizers Adjustments to fiscal policy that occur automatically during business cycles and smooth the path of economic growth. For example, in a recession the government will pump money into the economy by paying more in unemployment benefit without a change in policy. Automatic stabilizers counterbalance the feedback effect of changes in economic activity, although in practice their effectiveness is...
automatic indexing Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...automatic indexing In robotics , the process of automatically determining the position and orientation of a component with respect to the robot base frame , so as to allow the component to be picked up or otherwise...
automatic programming Quick reference
A Dictionary of Computer Science (7 ed.)
... programming 1. The use of a high-level programming language. The term in this sense is now obsolete. 2. Generation of programs automatically from a nonprocedural description of their desired effect. The term is falling into disuse. See also generator...
automatic identification Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... identification A means of identifying a product mechanically and entering the data obtained automatically into a computer. The most widely used method involves bar codes . Other methods include optical character recognition (OCR), magnetic ink character recognition (MICR), magnetic stripes, and voice...
automatic selling Quick reference
A Dictionary of Marketing (4 ed.)
... selling The sale of goods by a machine without human intervention. Example would be a vending machine or...
automatic tracking Quick reference
A Dictionary of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (5 ed.)
... tracking A method of holding a radar beam locked on target while the target range is being determined. ...
automatic lockout Quick reference
A Dictionary of the Internet (4 ed.)
... lockout The process whereby a number of incorrect log-ins are allowed to an account or a Web site before access is...
automatic pilot Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... pilot a feature of a flight control system that provides altitude stabilization with respect to internal...
automatic exercise Reference library
The Handbook of International Financial Terms
... exercise . The practice that options which are in the money at expiry are automatically exercised by the clearing house or the counterparty without specific instructions ( cf. cabinet trade ). The assumption is that the holder would want to exercise since he stands to make a profit. Clearing houses now routinely exercise all in-the-money options at expiry without requiring an exercise notice. NB: only those options manifestly in the money are automatically exercised; options at the money , or just in the money may not be triggered by the...
automatic weapon Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
... weapon Any of a variety of weapons using gas pressure, recoil, etc., after the first shot is fired to eject the fired case, load the next cartridge from the magazine , fire and eject that cartridge, and repeat the process continuously until ammunition is exhausted or pressure on the trigger is released. The term is often misapplied to semi‐automatic...