Question

Cognitive Psychology-Implicit Association Task:

You have just received your driver’s license and the first place you drive to on your own is to your music lesson. When you get to your lesson, your instructor asks you what driving route you took to get there. You have a great deal of trouble describing your driving route to your instructor, but obviously you had no problem getting there. Explain how this could happen.

Answer 1

Implicit Association is associating mental representations of objects or concepts in memory.

When you went to the music class, you were involved in driving and had no trouble reaching there. You had trouble explaining about the route you took to your instructor. This could happen because you weren't able to associate the route with your current memory when asked the question. You had trouble remembering the name of the roads maybe. But you won't be lost while driving back home as you know the route! But you can't associate the name of the roads, direction etc with your memory.