Find over 25,000 psychological definitions


identification–production distinction

a hypothesis about priming that amends the distinction commonly made for tests of implicit memory—that is, between perceptual tests that tap perceptual processing of the surface features of a stimulus and conceptual tests that tap conceptual processing of meaning or semantic information. Instead, it proposes a distinction that emphasizes different processing demands between tests that require the production of a response and those that require identification or verification regarding some property of an item. For example, word-stem completion (a perceptual test) and the category production test (a conceptual test) require, respectively, that participants produce a whole word (e.g., strong) from a word stem (e.g., str__) or produce an item (e.g., strawberry) that belongs to a given category (e.g., types of fruit). In contrast, perceptual identification (a perceptual test) and category verification (a conceptual test) require, respectively, that participants identify a physical property of a stimulus or verify whether items are members of a given category. Also called identification–production hypothesis. See implicit memory test). [proposed by U.S. psychologist John D. E. Gabrieli and colleagues]

Browse dictionary by letter

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Psychology term of the day

January 14th 2025

cognitive theory of leadership

cognitive theory of leadership

any of various models that define and explain leadership in terms of the perceptual, intellectual, and mental processes of both leaders and those they lead. See also leadership theories.