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Despite the success of modern psychology in implicit memory (priming) research achieved over the past three decades, issues related to unconscious forms of past experiences need to be further specified and developed. This paper discusses some essential methodological principles of the general-psychological theory of set formulated by Dimitri Uznadze. On the basis of the theory of set, the paper analyzes experimental data on unconscious retrieval of information embedded in past experiences and the mechanism of its expression in behavior. Subjects do not consciously remember this information, but respective knowledge is not discarded; it is stored in a set and is revealed in behavior in response to actual situations.
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Parjanadze, D.S. (2015). Dimitri Uznadze’s Theory of Set: Problems of Anticipation and Unconscious Forms of Memory. In: Nadin, M. (eds) Anticipation: Learning from the Past. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19446-2_20
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