A second-grade class took a spelling test immediately after learning how to bake a cake.The teacher noticed that many of the students spelled the word "FLOUR" correctly instead of "FLOWER," as she had expected.This scenario illustrates:

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The scenario illustrates priming, which occurs when prior exposure to a stimulus (in this case, learning about flour in the context of baking a cake) influences our subsequent processing and retrieval of related information (spelling the word "FLOWER" as "FLOUR"). This is a classic example of how priming can occur in everyday life. Memory reconsolidation refers to the process by which memories become susceptible to change and modification when they are retrieved, while transfer-appropriate processing refers to the idea that memory is enhanced when the encoding and retrieval processes match. Retrieval-induced forgetting occurs when the retrieval of some information inhibits the retrieval of other related information. None of these concepts are directly applicable to the scenario described.

A Second-Grade Class Took a Spelling Test Immediately After Learning