The distinction between automatic and effortful processing most clearly highlights the nature of

A) the two-track mind.
B) the self-reference effect.
C) sensory memory.
D) semantic processing.

Automatic Processing

refers to the unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings.

Effortful Processing

A type of memory encoding that requires attention and conscious effort in order to encode information.

Two-Track Mind

The concept that the human mind operates both consciously and unconsciously at the same time.