This refers to the mind's ability to simultaneously process information on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
Parallel Processing: This is the ability of the brain to do many things (such as walking and talking) at once.
Selective Attention: This is focusing on a particular object for a period of time while ignoring irrelevant information that is also occurring.
Automatic Processing: Unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and frequency, and well-learned information such as word meanings.
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