Automatism, from the Greek automatismos or self action, is the spontaneous production of often purposeless verbal or motor behavior without conscious self-control, self-conceptualization or self-censorship. This condition can be observed in a variety of contexts, including schizophrenia, psychogenic fugue, complex partial seizure, epilepsy or in response to a traumatic event. The individual exhibiting the behavior may not consciously recall any perceptual memory of performing the specific acts to be conceptualized. In psychology, a fugue state (aka psychogenic fugue or dissociative fugue) is a state of mind where a person experiences a dissociative break in identity and attempts to run away from some perceived threat, usually something abstract such as the persons identity. ... Complex partial seizures are epileptic attacks which involve a greater degree of impairment of consciousness than simple partial seizures. ...
Although the obscure behaviors could logically have been attributed to the constraining situations in which they occurred, Ss who observed such behaviors were especially unlikely to correct their trait characterizations of the actors.
The degree of "habitualness" of behavior is argued to be a consequence of the frequency with which these goal-directed actions have been performed in similar situations in the past.
That is, we hypothesized that habitual action is activated automatically on the instigation of a goal and that such actions are not activated among people for which the behavior is not habitual.
Behavior, automatic: A behavior that is performed without conscious knowledge and that does not appear to be under conscious control.
The neurologic disorders associated with automaticbehavior include narcolepsy (the sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to sleep) and some forms of epilepsy (such as psychomotor epilepsy).
Automaticbehavior involves doing something "automatically" and not remembering afterwards how one did it or even that one did it.
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