Perceptual priming tasks
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| - | Priming is a phenomenon of long-term memory that typically increases or decreases an individual's ability to process repeated stimuli, usually consisting of words, ideas, or pictures. | + | Priming is a phenomenon of long-term memory that typically increases or decreases an individual's ability to process repeated stimuli, usually consisting of words, ideas, or pictures. Most long-term memory tasks such as this are comprised of three phases: 1) a study phase, 2) a retention interval in which a diversion task is performed, and 3) a test phase in which memories of the previously studied material are retrieved. Certain priming tasks are considered to be primarily perceptual in nature, drawing upon processes concerned with the visual, auditory, and tactile forms of a target stimulus. These include word and picture identification, lexical decision, picture and word naming, degraded picture and word naming, completing word-stems, anagram solution, and word-fragment completion. |
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Definition
Priming is a phenomenon of long-term memory that typically increases or decreases an individual's ability to process repeated stimuli, usually consisting of words, ideas, or pictures. Most long-term memory tasks such as this are comprised of three phases: 1) a study phase, 2) a retention interval in which a diversion task is performed, and 3) a test phase in which memories of the previously studied material are retrieved. Certain priming tasks are considered to be primarily perceptual in nature, drawing upon processes concerned with the visual, auditory, and tactile forms of a target stimulus. These include word and picture identification, lexical decision, picture and word naming, degraded picture and word naming, completing word-stems, anagram solution, and word-fragment completion.
