PRIMING

Priming

Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences a response to a later stimulus. It can occur following perceptual, semantic, or conceptual stimulus repetition. For example, if a person reads a list of words including the word table, and is later asked to complete a word starting with tab, the probability that he or she will answer table is greater than if they are not primed. Another example is if people see an incomplete sketch they are unable to identify and they are shown more of the sketch until they recognize the picture, later they will identify the sketch at an earlier stage than was possible for ...

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priming

Noun

  1. The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
  2. A substance used as a primer.
  3. The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
  4. The first coating of colour, size, etc. laid on canvas, or on a building or other surface.
  5. The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.

Verb

priming



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