Mariyam Mohamed

At times life can be challenging and many people tend to build negative images in their heads that impacts their thoughts, feelings and actions. As a result they feel tired and down most of the time. They associate negative events that happened in their life to current events. Consequently they forget the moments of achievements in their life. The exposure of an individual to a stimulus that would influence the response to a second stimulus is called priming. Priming works by activating an association or representation in  memory  just before another stimulus or task is introduced. Priming phenomenon occurs at a subconscious level and has a huge impact on our day to day activity. Priming can be positive or negative and depends on the thoughts that you hold in your mind. For instance you might jump up at creaks and noises that are similar to a horror movie you have watched days or weeks before. You might feel a shark is about to attack you if you swim in deep water with t...