Abstract: Employing L. L. Jacoby' s process dissociation procedure (Jacoby, 1991), anexperiment was designed to separate the contributions of explicit and implicit mermoryto processing social and non-social information of the pictures used. We investigatedwhether the contributions of implicit memory to processing social information weregreater than those to processing non-social information, or vice versa. The resultshowed: the contributions of implicit memory to processing social information weregreater than those to processing non-social information. The outcomes of theexperiment encouraged us to bring up a hypothesis on structural model of explicit andimplicit memory: work of concrete and steel.

Key words: implicit social cognition, process dissociation procedure, social information, non-social information