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The Role of Implicit Priming in the Acquisition and Processing of Complex Semantic Categories

Graham, Erin Nicole
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1559132722298381

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2019, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
The purpose of the presented experimental series was to evaluate the extent to which implicit knowledge can impact how individuals learn rule-based semantic categories. The first experiment sought to establish whether the presence of a masked semantic prime can alter the way in which exemplar features are initially processed and subsequently utilized in an inductive categorization task. The second experiment replicated and extended the findings of the first experiment by addressing methodological confounds and evaluating the role of rule-abstraction categorization strategies. The third experiment sought to provide a more fine-grained analysis of implicit rule priming in categorization and explored of the impact of priming on the immediate processing of individual semantic exemplars. The results from this investigation suggest that the inclusion of implicit rule priming during semantic category learning does not result in any material benefits for category learning and may even have unintended negative effects on category learning due to semantic satiation. These results have important ramifications for future of research on category learning and for cognitive psychologists’ understanding of the functional relationship between implicit and declarative processes in complex cognition.
Chris Was, PhD (Advisor)
Katherine Rawson, PhD (Committee Member)
John Dunlosky, PhD (Committee Member)
Jeffrey Ciesla, PhD (Committee Member)
62 p.
Psychology
priming; human category learning; implicit learning; semantic categories

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  • Graham, E. N. (2019). The Role of Implicit Priming in the Acquisition and Processing of Complex Semantic Categories [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1559132722298381

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Graham, Erin. The Role of Implicit Priming in the Acquisition and Processing of Complex Semantic Categories. 2019. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1559132722298381.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Graham, Erin. "The Role of Implicit Priming in the Acquisition and Processing of Complex Semantic Categories." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1559132722298381

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