Accessible memories can shape judgments without the person recognizing their causal influence.

Evidence

Third, the qualification “[introspectively] inaccurately identified” includes an important class of cases in which a prior experience is identifiable, but its influence on an evaluative response is not. For example, a student may be aware of having been graded highly in a course, but not suspect that this experience influences responses to the course’s end-of-term course evaluation survey. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the crucial scope of ‘introspectively inaccurately identified’—awareness of the experience need not match awareness of its influence.
• XREF: This is the source-experience vs. influence awareness distinction later systematized in attitude-nonattitude and self-report validity work. — connects to: Past experience shapes judgments without the actor knowing it. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 3; Implicit cognition is past experience’s unnoticed trace shaping responses. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 21; Mere exposure effects depend on fluency misattributed to liking, not memory. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 103 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Implicit cognition is past experience’s unnoticed trace shaping responses. #expands (0.92) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 21
• Mere exposure effects depend on fluency misattributed to liking, not memory. #exemplifies (0.90) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 103
• Analogical reasoning can operate as an intuitive particular-to-particular leap without a conscious rule #exemplifies (0.78) — Frederick Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer, 183