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PRIMING IN SCHOOL

When walking around school, students usually see people walking around in their scrubs for nursing school, dental school, physical therapy school and etc. This can prime a student to want to excel in school to reach that point in their life. In a study in Switzerland, the researchers studied how students that are primed to failure can do worse in their cognitive or motor performance. This study had elementary students be put into two groups: a group that was primed with failure and a group that was primed with success. The students placed in the failure group usually did not do well in their classes. The two groups were shown different types of symbols. This whole study concluded that students primed with failure tend to fail in the activity they are doing and students primed with success excel in their cognitive or motor performance (Schüler, Brandstätter, & Baumann, 2015). School is a big part of anyone’s life and it determines their future and being primed to failure early in their life will discourage them as students.

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