associative facilitation

associative facilitation

[ə′sō·sē‚ād·iv fə‚sil·ə′tā·shən]
(psychology)
Ease in establishing a new association because of previous associations.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Associative facilitation of word recognition as measured from a neutral prime.
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In Expt 4 we examined further the nature of this associative facilitation, by comparing it to the facilitation observed when both prime and target are representations of the same person.
The nature of semantic priming effects in the recognition of familiar people
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