In an experiment by Harold Kelley (1950), some college students were told that their guest lecturer was a warm person, while others were told that he was a cold person. Those students who were told that he was a warm person evaluated him more positively than those who had been told he was cold. This demonstrates that schemas can be subject to __________.

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Priming refers to the psychological phenomenon where exposure to a stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. In Kelley's experiment, the pre-information about the lecturer being "warm" or "cold" primed the students to perceive and evaluate the lecturer in line with that initial description, demonstrating how schemas (mental structures that organize our knowledge and assumptions about something) can be influenced by priming.

In an Experiment by Harold Kelley (1950), Some College Students