LIN 3042 Applied Linguistics · Priming demo
Priming demo: the items
Every word in the demo, for review in class.
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Real words ()
Each real word came once, after either its related or its unrelated prime. For each of you, half the words were picked at random to get the related one. The first pair is the textbook’s own example (p. 431).
| # | Related prime | Unrelated prime | Target |
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Not words ()
The made-up words have the same lengths as the real targets. plib and blove are from p. 430. Their primes are real words, so the short word gave nothing away.
Practice (, not counted)
| Prime | Target | Answer |
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Things to check
- Is every related prime really related to its target? Related in the same way?
- Is every unrelated prime really unrelated? Which would you swap?
- Is every made-up word clearly not a word? Does any sound like a word, a name, or slang?