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The controlled application of a strategy can still produce automatic effects: reply to Redington (2000)
1Department of Psychology, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. higham@soton.ac.uk
Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|January 6, 2001
Abstract:
The deliberate application of a strategy can have unintended discriminative effects. It is argued that these effects or influences on discriminative responding are the source of automatic influences and can be dissociated from controlled influences under appropriate circumstances. Such automatic influences are often latent in the interaction between the memory structures and the strategies that participants bring to bear in many implicit learning tasks.

