Summer cannot remember locking the back door on her way out this morning. "I'm sure I must have," she reassures herself. This example BEST illustrates:
A)automatic processing.
B)inattentional blindness.
C)selective attention.
D)sensory adaptation.

Question

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Automatic processing is a type of processing that occurs without conscious awareness and can lead to actions or behaviors that we do without actively thinking about them (such as locking a door). Summer's reassurance that she must have locked the door suggests that she did so automatically without actively processing the action.

Summer Cannot Remember Locking the Back Door on Her Way