The role of awareness of repetition during the development of automaticity in a dot-counting task
Abstract
This study examined whether being aware of the repetition of stimuli in a simple numerosity task could aid the development of automaticity. The numerosity task used in this study was a simple counting task. Thirty-four participants were divided into two groups. One group was instructed that the stimuli would repeat many times throughout the experiment. The results showed no significant differences in the way automatic processing developed between the groups. Similarly, there was no correlation between the point at which automatic processing developed and the point at which participants felt they benefitted from the repetition of stimuli. These results suggest that extra-trial features of a task may have no effect on the development of automaticity, a finding consistent with the instance theory of automatisation.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
2018
Location of the Work
United Kingdom
Publication Title
PeerJ
Publisher
PeerJ, Ltd
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
27916
Copyright
free_to_read
Comments
Speelman, C. P., & Shadbolt, E. (2018). The role of awareness of repetition during the development of automaticity in a dot-counting task. PeerJ, 6, e4329. Available here.