The disadvantage of all this automatic behavior is that if something doesn't work, it's really hard to get around the breakage.

Patients taking sleep medication have reported such automatic behaviors as walking, eating, and even driving in their sleep-and not remembering it in the morning.

Downey stresses that automatic behavior is relatively rare, however.

Hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and automatic behaviour can also occur in people who are not narcoleptics.

The processes above illustrate a model of controlled versus automatic behavior that was hypothesized by Shallice et al. (1989), called the supervisory attentional system.

Absent-mindedness can lead to automatic behaviors, or automatisms.

One view, proposed by Hatfield and colleagues, describes the emotional contagion process as a primitive, automatic and unconscious behavior.

Such conditions may render individuals unable to interrupt automatic drug-seeking behaviours.

Features of an automatic behavior are all or some of: efficiency, lack of awareness, unintentionality, uncontrollability.

"By that you mean an automatic, instinctive, unthinking behavior?"