A participant reads a list of words, and the word "elephant" appears several times in that list. Later, the participant tachistoscopically views another list of words. When the word "elephant" appears in the second list, the participant's response rate is faster than for other words not found on the previous list. This effect is called:

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This effect of increased response speed for a previously encountered word is known as repetition priming. The other options, such as word-superiority effect, redundancy claim and working-memory availability are not directly related to this phenomenon.

A Participant Reads a List of Words, and the Word