PSYC 309 Lecture 1: PSYC309A PART 2 ch. 7,8,9,10,11
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Goals: to understand the idea of priming, and how through priming, our thoughts and behavior can be covertly influenced by things we encounter to our environment. Things in the environment can influence us but we are not aware of it. Advertisement at a bus stop, pumps smell of chocolate chip cookies. In order to influence them to think of milk. The word pens reminded him of his old coworker named denis, who was called. Penis (idk why it reminded him of a national park from a penis) Priming works based on the association of different things. French fries led him to think of u. Also reminded him of cheese burger in-n-out burger california. Connections vary in strength, and can change with experience, learning, etc. Every time the computer makes a sound for rebooting, he feeds his coworker a piece of gum. Influence behavior my mouth tastes so bad all of a sudden .