When Sally was first learning to drive a stick shift manual transmission car she paid thoughtful attention to everything she did. Now months later it's all automatic and she just does it. In Smolensky's (1988) framework of cognition Sally's driving has gone from:

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Smolensky's framework of cognition includes two processors: the conscious processor and the intuitive processor. When Sally was first learning to drive, she was engaging her conscious processor, paying thoughtful attention to everything she did. However, after months of practice, her driving became automatic and she now uses her intuitive processor, where driving has become second nature and requires little conscious thought. Therefore, Sally's driving has gone from engaging the conscious processor to the intuitive processor.

When Sally Was First Learning to Drive a Stick Shift