32 subjects participated in a contextual priming experiment which used a between-subjects design. The experiment tested the hypothesis that priming subjects with certain verbal pre-tasks would affect responses on a subsequent word-association test. The control group was given the stimulus list for word associations without the previous priming task. The hypothesis suggesting that the responses of the primed group would be different from those of the unprimed group was supported.
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