Priming is used to investigate how words are stored and retrieved in the brain
If the target word is "Horse".
The word "Cow" is given as a cue.
This is considered a primed target
If the target word is "Green".
The word "Grief" is given as a cue.
This is not a primed target.
Positive priming is thought to be caused by spreading activation. This means that the first stimulus activates parts of a particular representation or association in memory just before carrying out an action or task. The representation is already partially activated when the second stimulus is encountered, so less additional activation is needed for one to become consciously aware of it.
Question 3
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What are the processes involved in naming a picture?
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Acoustic analysis, phonological input lexicon, semantic system
Which best describes the use of knowledge of semantic and syntactic information to predict what is coming next when someone is talking e.g. the word 'the' suggests 'the dog'.
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Top-down processing
Bottom-up processing
Semantic Priming
Lexical Decision
Question 5
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Humans are “pre-wired” with the ability to learn language. This is the basis of the....