priming

Examples of priming in the following topics:

• Unconscious Perception

  • The perceptual learning of unconscious processing occurs through priming.
  • This is one of the simplest examples of priming.
  • One example of priming is in the childhood game Simon Says.
  • Simon is able to trick the players because of priming.
  • The participants who had been primed with rude words interrupted the investigator most often, and those primed with polite words did so the least often.

• Social Cognition

  • Two cognitive processes that increase the accessibility of schemas are salience and priming.
  • "Priming" refers to any experience immediately prior to a situation that causes a schema to be more accessible.

• Stimulants

  • Due to their availability and fast-acting effects, amphetamines are prime candidates for abuse.

• Unconscious Perception and Influences on Behavior

  • Subliminal messaging and priming are examples of how information unconsciously influences behavior through perception.

• The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

  • Together, these two systems maintain homeostasis within the body: one priming the body for action, and the other repairing the body afterward.

• Group Behavior

  • Nazi Germany is often cited as a prime example of the negative potential of groupthink because a number of factors, such as shared illusions and rationalizations and a lack of individual accountability, allowed for a few powerful leaders to enlist many otherwise "normal" people in committing mass acts of violence.

• Physical Development in Adolescence

  • Hormones play an organizational role (priming the body to behave in a certain way once puberty begins) and an activational role (triggering certain behavioral and physical changes).