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Priming Effect Of Semantic Categorization As The Displays Of The Prime And Probe Has Only One Target

Posted on:2006-04-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:B LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360152986139Subject:Principles of Education
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Priming effect as a kind of research approach can not separate from implicit memory atthe beginning. Unless we can say,implicit memory is mainly showed through Primingeffect .Priming effect can be used as an index of implicit memory . To a certain extent, therelation of the two can be interpreted as the phenomenon and essential relation, it is aphenomenon to Priming effect, implicit memory is the essence inside. So in a lot of latentimplicit memory researches, Priming effect nearly becomes the pronoun of the unconsciousmemory phenomenon. Even the psychologists only propose Priming effect without implicitmemory while discussing. Implicit memory means the memory that people can not remember but it can be provedby effect afterward among the specific behavior. Implicit memory is the memory showed offautomatically in specific task without reliance on the memory that remember consciously ofexperience. Its character is that subject do not know it and abstract it consciously . The proposition of implicit memory has undoubtedly expanded the intension of memoryresearch. Implicit memory opens up a brand-new research field having remarkable essentialdifference with traditional memory (emplicit memory) by separating on experimentalobservation. The proposition of implicit memory marks mankind's further promotion to thething that memory realizes inside. With Priming effect (implicit memory) study further to deepen , research focus ofpsychologist turn to negative Priming effect gradually. In contrast with the facility of theattentional object( positive priming), Tipper put forward the concept of the negativepriming----Namely the responses to the new objects that have just neglected are often slowor accuracy are relatively bad. Since the concept of negative priming has put forward, it hasbeen paid attention to and studied extensively. The researchers found effect of the negativepriming in different experiment materials (letter, figure, figure , word,etc.)and differenttasks (name, count, space location , category,etc.) Effect of the negative priming isconsidered to be the function that information is inhibitively processed while processing,it isa kind of index to measure the inhibitive processing. But the reason of negative priming hasdifferent versions. There are many theories of the effect of negative priming, such assimple inhibition theory, cognitive deactivation theory, response blocking theory, mismatchhypothesis, code coordination hypothesis, episodic retrieval theory, dual mechanism theory,temporal discrimination theory, transfer inappropriate theory, activation sensitive inhibitiontheory. The studies show that there are two sources of the effect of negative priming,inhibition and memory. The view of inhibition focuses on the sign of information, and theview of memory focuses on the retrieval of information. Tipper's inhibition of the ditractertheory has the strongest influence .The theory shows that the characters reacted to thedistracters and targets of the prime are inhibitively processed. The inhibition causes the slowresponse and the effect of the negative priming. Because of the evidences of physiology andbehavior ,the view of inhibition is admitted extensively. The view of memory can explain alot of defeats of the view of inhibition. With the progress of studying, people think that thereare possibly many kinds of mechanisms of negative priming. Under different conditions,different mechanisms play different roles of their own. The past researches of negative priming included target and distracter in the primedisplay, the probe display included target and distracter too. The display of the distracterplays a key role of the negative priming. Some researches show that negative primingcould be found when the prime display only has one target without distracter and the probedisplay has target and distracter. But we do not know whether the negative priming will befound when the probe display only has one target without distracter. The researches at present study the effect of negative priming as the displays of the...
Keywords/Search Tags:Implicit memory, Negative priming, Repetition priming, Selective attention, Semantic categorization
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