On your way to your psychology class,you pass a newsstand where a tabloid headline reads: "Brazen Celebrity Seduces Pop Star." When you get to class,your professor is doing a demonstration about memory and asks you to complete a series of word stems.Although most of your class completes the stem "br____" with "bread" or "broke," you complete it as "brazen." You don't actually recall reading that word,and you're not sure why it popped into your mind.What does this example illustrate

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This example illustrates implicit memory, which is an unconscious form of memory that we use to complete tasks automatically without conscious effort. The word "brazen" may have been absorbed subconsciously while passing the newsstand, which then surfaced without conscious intention during the memory demonstration activity.

On Your Way to Your Psychology Class,you Pass a Newsstand