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Dissociative effects in different prime domains.

D L Nelson1, M J LaLomia, J J Canas

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa 33617.

Memory & Cognition
|January 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Priming effects on word recognition depend on prime type. Taxonomic primes showed faster decisions with smaller sets and prior study, unlike rhymes. Stronger prime relationships consistently improved performance.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Priming effects are crucial for understanding word recognition and semantic memory.
  • Variations in prime type, set size, strength, and prior study can influence priming.
  • Existing research contrasts findings across different experimental tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how taxonomic category names, associates, and rhymes affect priming.
  • To examine the influence of prime set size, prime strength, and prior target study.
  • To compare these effects in verification and lexical decision tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Used verification and lexical decision tasks with different prime types (taxonomic, associates, rhymes).
  • Manipulated prime set size (small vs. large) and prime strength (strong vs. weak).
  • Included conditions with and without prior target study.

Main Results:

  • Taxonomic primes yielded faster decisions with smaller set sizes and prior study.
  • Rhyme priming was unaffected by set size or prior study.
  • Stronger prime-to-target relationships consistently reduced decision latencies across all prime types.

Conclusions:

  • The impact of priming variables differs based on prime type and task.
  • Findings support a components-of-processing approach to understanding priming effects.
  • Results contrast with manipulations in episodic memory tasks like cued recall.

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