Mitchell (2006) exposed a group of university students in 1982 to a series of black-and white line drawings for between 1 and 3 seconds each. Seventeen years later, he showed these participants small partial fragments of the drawings they had viewed, mixed in with fragments of drawings they had never seen. Because of this implicit memory effect, participants could name the items they had seen before more accurately than the fragments that were not previously seen years before.
A) procedural memory
B) serial position effect
C) primacy effect
D) repetition priming

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This study demonstrates the effect of repetition priming, where exposure to a stimulus (in this case, the line drawings) influences the ability to recognize or identify that stimulus at a later time, even if the exposure was not consciously remembered. Procedural memory involves the learning of skills and is not directly related to visual recognition. The serial position effect and primacy effect refer to the patterns of recall for items in a list and are not applicable to this study.

Mitchell (2006) Exposed a Group of University Students in 1982