It is at this intersection of unconscious goals or plans and habituated responding that the interplay of mindfulness is illuminated. If particular plans and schemata are activated in an overlearned and automated fashion, it is possible for them to become so routinized that they escape periodic reevaluation of their effectiveness and so become mindless response patterns. By contrast, if automatic judgments, activated by nonverbal visual and vocal cues, free cognitive resources to process complex verbal …showed first 75 words of 1609 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1609 total…complexity can have a detrimental effect on verbal fluency. Yet the complexity of "imagined interactions" (defined in a manner similar to plans) predicted competent performance in another study (Edwards, Honeycutt, & Zagacki, 1988). And complexity at the tactical level appears to facilitate the production of effective information-seeking and verbal disagreement tactics (Waldron & Applegate, 1994, 1998). Thus, although mental search processes may interfere with the production of fluent speech (Berger, 1995, 1997), they may produce more desirable courses of action ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**