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negative priming

the ability of a preceding stimulus to inhibit the response to a subsequent stimulus. This is measured by the detectability of the second stimulus or the time taken to make a response to the second stimulus. The most striking examples occur when the participant is instructed to ignore a feature of the first stimulus (e.g., its color) and then to attend to that same feature in the second stimulus. Priming effects are usually facilitative.

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sociocultural deprivation

sociocultural deprivation

see psychosocial deprivation.