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Beat Meier1, Vinzenz Morger, Peter Graf

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. beat.meier@psy.unibe.ch

Consciousness and Cognition
|May 24, 2003
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Automatic processes in word stem completion tasks are faster than controlled processes. Shorter prime durations and immediate targets favor automatic over controlled cognitive processes.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Cognition

Background:

  • Investigating the interplay between automatic and controlled cognitive processes is crucial for understanding human decision-making.
  • Word stem completion tasks provide a paradigm to differentiate between these processing types.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the competition between automatic and controlled cognitive processes.
  • To determine how prime-display duration and prime-target interval influence these processes in a word stem completion task.

Main Methods:

  • A word stem completion task was employed with manipulated prime-display durations and prime-target intervals.
  • Participants completed word stems, reported identified primes, and avoided using identified primes as completions.
  • Experimental design assumed automatic processes are faster and require less input than controlled processes.

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Main Results:

  • Shorter prime-display durations led to a stronger contribution from automatic processes.
  • Immediate prime-target intervals also favored automatic over controlled processes.
  • Results confirmed the hypothesis regarding processing speed and stimulus input requirements.

Conclusions:

  • Consciously controlled cognitive processes require significantly more time to complete than unconscious automatic processes.
  • The findings underscore the distinct temporal dynamics of automatic versus controlled cognition.
  • Understanding these dynamics is key for models of human information processing.