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Name Karsten Ladner on Jan 20
When memory is encoded, lots of other bits of information are encoded along with it. For example, if you encode a memory about the night you won the soccer tournament, you will encode lots of other information like the people you played with, whether it was raining, if you were playing with night lights, the jersey you wore, etc. All of these bits of information are called retrieval cues. They are associated with the memory of scoring the goal, and they can be used to access the memory of scoring. Priming is the process of "warming" up a retrieval cue that enables closely associated memories to be remembered more easily. Thus, hearing the word yellow will prime closely related words like banana or bus. Then, when hearing "an-ana" later, you will think of banana.


 * An example of priming with the word yellow:**



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Dewey, Russel A., PhD. A semantic network. Digital image. //Psychology: An Introduction' // N.p., 2007. Web. 20 Jan. 2015. .

Comment by Hung Jie Song on January 21, 2015: Karsten, reading your comparison and contrast of priming and retrieval cues was enjoyable. An example of priming would be when I as a kid was told that "squishy" was a word for a stress ball, so whenever I heard squishy, I'd picture a stress ball. Whenever I hear buzzing of any kind, it reminds me of the time I almost got stung as a bee. The buzzing would be a retrieval cue for my past experience. Great job, Karsten! Citation: "Retrieval Cue." Psychlopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Jan. 2015.