45 subjects participated in an experiment using a between-subjects design to study the effect of contextual priming upon word-association responses and to compare visual and auditory priming. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups (visual stimulus, auditory stimulus, control). The hypothesis that the priming affects word-association responses was accepted. Results also indicated that auditory priming was superior to visual priming.
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