Suppose that you and your family are moving to a new apartme…

Suppose that you and your family are moving to a new apartment. Because your little brother has an excellent memory for things in general, he is put in charge of remembering what is packed with what. Because your mother usually takes care of bill payment, she is put in charge of remembering with what companies your family needs to file a change-of-address form. And because you have been the one handling most of the logistics of the move (hiring a company to inspect the new apartment for termites, making sure that you received your deposit back on your old apartment, etc.), you are put in charge of keeping track of these things. This is an example of ____.​

​A well-known test used in psychological research plays on t…

​A well-known test used in psychological research plays on the distinction between automatic and controlled processing. The test requires people to look at the written names of several colors (“green,” “red,” “blue,” etc.)—names which are in all cases written in “non-matching” colors of ink (e.g., the word “green” might be written in red ink, while the word “red” might be written in yellow ink)—and to identify, as quickly as possible, the color in which each word is written. This test is known as the ____.