Creating an association between a stimulus and either a sound, touch, smell, taste or picture. It is a form of operant conditioning. Example: A person smelling leaves thinks of fall and going to school as a child. A handshake is an anchor of a symbol of a friendly greeting. Anything symbolic is an established anchor. Advertisers use anchors constantly with slogans, jingles and logos.
Placing the suggestion in the subconscious during hypnosis to establish a trigger that elicits the desired response when the trigger is activated..
the process of making associations that work through conscious choice so that you can reaccess your own or trigger others' chosen state when appropriate.
The process by which any stimulus or representation (external or internal) gets connected to and so triggers a response. Anchors occur naturally and in all representational systems. They can be used intentionally, as in analogue marking or with numerous change techniques, such as Collapse Anchors. The NLP concept of anchoring derives from the Pavlovian stimulus-response reaction, classical conditioning. In Pavlov's study the tuning fork became the stimulus (anchor) that cued the dog to salivate.
Possibly the most instructive part of the N-LP concepts, in no small part for what you can learn by tracing it's developtment through the N-LP literature. At best this term is inconistently defined and used. The earliest incarnation seems to be primarily a means of keeping therapy sessions on track. Later it was developed into the basis of some of N-LP's most exciting claims, a kind of applied irresistable operant conditioning. As part of the shift from N-LP to Semantic Restructuring we have an update of nomenclature to better distinguish between the intangible "semantic trigger" and it's primary constituent parts, namely, "triggered state", "trigger". Cf. Semantic Triggers (pending.)
A cognitive heuristic in which decisions are made based on an initial 'anchor'. Our decisions are influenced by input that seems to suggest the correct answer.
Anchoring is a neuro-linguistic programming term for the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimulus, in such a way that perception of the stimulus (the anchor) leads by reflex to the anchored response occurring. The stimulus may be quite neutral or even out of conscious awareness, and the response may be either positive or negative. They are capable of being formed and reinforced by repeated stimuli, and thus are analogous to classical conditioning.