Skill and automaticity: Relations, implications, and future directions.

Abstract

ABSTRACT Automaticity and skill are closely related but are not identical. Automatic processes are components of skill, but skill is more than the sum of the automatic components. Automaticity and skill are similar in that both are learned through practice; this has implications for (1) current studies of the co-occurrence of properties of automaticity, (2) the relation between multiple resources and automaticity, and (3) the relation between control and automaticity. Many of the issues in automaticity may be resolved or at least revised by considering the role that automatic processes play in performing a skill. RESUME L'automatismeet l'habiletesont relies mais non identiques. Les processus automatiques sont les composantes d'une habilite, mais celle-ci est plus que la somme de ses composantes automatiques. L'automatisme et l'habilete sont similaires en ce sens qu'ils sont tous deux appris par la pratique. Ceci a des implications sur (1) les etudes actuelles sur la co-occurrence des proprietes de Tautomatisme, (2) la relation entre les ressources multiples et l'automatisme et (3) la relation entre le controle et l'automatisme. Plusieurs des questions portant sur l'automatisme