There Are No Advantages to Automatic Processing

question 14

True/False

There are no advantages to automatic processing.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Activity

Cognitive functions that play a role in acquiring understanding and insight, encompassing activities such as cognition, perception, recollection, evaluation, and solving issues.

Discarding

The process of eliminating or getting rid of something that is no longer useful or required.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Conjunction Fallacy

A logical fallacy where people incorrectly judge the probability of the conjunction of two events to be more likely than the probability of either event alone.