Explain Priming in Terms of Spreading Activation

question 38

Essay

Explain priming in terms of spreading activation.Using a description of a lexical decision task,give an example of a prime-stimulus pair that would produce priming and another pair that would not.What do these priming effects tell us about categorization?

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Definitions:

Independent

A characteristic of variables that are not affected by or related to other variables in the context of a study or experiment.

Probability

The quantification of the probability that an event will take place, expressed as a number ranging from 0 to 1.

Tennis Player

An individual who actively participates in the sport of tennis, either professionally or as an amateur.

Independent

A term describing a variable that is not affected by the change in another variable in an experiment or study.