Steve is shown a list of words that includes "baby." He is then asked to list all the words he can remember from the list,but he does not include "baby." Steve is later given a lexical decision task in which he has to decide,for each of the letter strings presented,whether the string is an actual word or not.One of the letter strings presented in the lexical decision task,though,is "baby." Which of the following patterns is most likely to reflect Steve's performance on this identification task?

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Steve's exposure to "baby" in the list he was shown earlier primes him for faster recognition of the word in the lexical decision task, even if he didn't consciously remember it when asked to recall words from the list. This phenomenon is known as priming, where prior exposure to a stimulus facilitates or speeds up the response to the same or a related stimulus later on.

Steve Is Shown a List of Words That Includes "Baby