Implicit cognition
Encyclopedia
Implicit cognition refers to unconscious influences such as knowledge
, perception
, or memory
, that influence a person's behavior
, even though they themselves have no conscious awareness whatsoever of those influences.
Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something unknown, which can include information, facts, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject...
, perception
Perception
Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...
, or memory
Memory
In psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing memory....
, that influence a person's behavior
Behavior
Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment...
, even though they themselves have no conscious awareness whatsoever of those influences.
See also
- ConsciousnessConsciousnessConsciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...
- Implicit attitudeImplicit attitudeImplicit attitudes are the positive or negative thoughts, feelings, or actions towards objects which arise due to past experiences which one is either unaware of or which one cannot attribute to an identified previous experience...
- Implicit stereotypesImplicit stereotypesFirst defined by psychologists Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji in 1995, implicit stereotypes are the unconscious attribution of particular qualities to members of social groups. Implicit stereotypes are influenced by experience, and are based on learned associations between various qualities...
- Relational Frame TheoryRelational frame theoryRelational frame theory, or RFT, is a psychological theory of human language and cognition. It was developed largely through the efforts of Steven C...
- Response PrimingResponse primingIn the psychology of perception and motor control, the term response priming denotes a special form of Priming. Generally, priming effects take place whenever a response to a target stimulus is influenced by a prime stimulus presented at an earlier time...
- Subliminal stimuliSubliminal stimuliSubliminal stimuli , contrary to supraliminal stimuli or "above threshold", are any sensory stimuli below an individual's threshold for conscious perception. The large majority of research has found that subliminal messages do not produce strong or lasting changes in behavior...
- Unconscious stereotypes
Further reading
- Underwood, Geoffery D.M., Implicit Cognition, Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Stacy, Alan W. and Wiers, Reinout W. Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction, Sage Publications, Inc., 2006
- Implicit Cognition and Consciousness in Scientific Speculation and Development by Amy Ione (Retrieved January 30, 2008)