Spreading activation versus compound cue accounts of priming: Mediated priming revisited
| Autor: | G, McKoon, R, Ratcliff |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 18:1155-1172 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1285 0278-7393 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/0278-7393.18.6.1155 |
| Popis: | Spreading activation theories and compound cue theories have both been proposed as accounts of priming phenomena. According to spreading activation theories, the amount of activation that spreads between a prime and a target should be a function of the number of mediating links between the prime and target in a semantic network and the strengths of those links. The amount of activation should determine the amount of facilitation given by a prime to a target in lexical decision. To predict the amount of facilitation, it is necessary to measure the associative links between prime and target in memory. Free-association production probability has been the variable chosen in previous research for this measurement. However, in 3 experiments, the authors show priming effects that free-association production probabilities cannot easily predict. Instead, they argue that amount of priming depends on the familiarity of the prime and target as a compound, where the compound is formed by the simultaneous presence of the prime and target in short-term memory as a test item. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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