Question

What type of stimuli are used in priming experiments? What are the disputes for and against using manipulation checks for priming research.

Answer 1

Examples of Priming

Priming occurs whenever exposure to one thing can later alter behavior or thoughts. For example, if a child sees a bag of candy next to a red bench, they might begin looking for or thinking about candy the next time they see a bench

Priming involves two stimuli which are associated to each other. FOR example cat and mouse are two that are linked with each other in memory so the appearance of one of the word can prime the subject to respond more rapidly when the second word appears

Manipulation checks provide opportunities for these internal analyses when treatments fail. In addition to checking on the effectiveness of the manipulation, they allow the researcher a second, correlational, method of checking on the plausibility of the hypothesis, even when the manipulation was ineffective.