Priming decisions and motor behavior
This article reviews representative research on the effects of priming previously acquired knowledge on both decisions and overt behavior. Decisions are typically primed by behavior that activates goal related concepts in memory, leading these concepts to be used as the basis for behavioral decisions that are made in a later situation in pursuit of a quite unrelated objective. Motor behavior, on the other hand, is governed by cognitive productions, or complex conditioned responses that are elicited automatically and without awareness when the conditions with which they are associated are encountered.