Kawaguchi J
Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 1987 Feb;57(6):350-6. doi: 10.4992/jjpsy.57.350.
This study was conducted to investigate how two different conditions of processing a prime would affect the lexical decision time of a target. One condition was called the conscious condition, where a prime was presented for 250 ms and a subject was instructed to expect any target from that prime. Another condition was the unconscious condition, where a prime was briefly exposed and followed by a pattern mask so that a subject could not identify it. The effect of an associative strength of prime-target relatedness was also investigated. The associative strength of prime-target relatedness in the related condition was relatively weak in Exp. I, and strong in Exp. II. In the conscious condition, facilitation and inhibition were found both in Exp. I and in Exp. II. On the other hand, in the unconscious condition, only inhibition was found in Exp. I, but only facilitation in Exp. II. These results suggest that automatic activation and attention system were both needed to account for priming effect.
本研究旨在探讨对启动刺激进行两种不同处理条件如何影响目标刺激的词汇判断时间。一种条件称为有意识条件，即呈现启动刺激250毫秒，并指示受试者期待来自该启动刺激的任何目标刺激。另一种条件是无意识条件，即启动刺激被短暂呈现，随后出现图案掩蔽，以便受试者无法识别它。同时还研究了启动刺激与目标刺激相关性的联想强度的影响。在实验一中，相关条件下启动刺激与目标刺激相关性的联想强度相对较弱，而在实验二中则较强。在有意识条件下，实验一和实验二中均发现了促进作用和抑制作用。另一方面，在无意识条件下，实验一中仅发现了抑制作用，而实验二中仅发现了促进作用。这些结果表明，自动激活和注意力系统都需要用来解释启动效应。
