Marisa reads a short vignette about a deer wandering through a forest in her English class.Later that day, she was working the puzzle in the newspaper in which she was to unscramble the letters TARIL to form a word.The first answer that pops into her head was the word trail.Marisa's experience illustrates the power of
A)chunking.
B)priming.
C)sensory memory.
D)eidetic imagery.

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Marisa's experience demonstrates the power of priming, which occurs when exposure to a stimulus influences a person's response to a subsequent stimulus. In this case, reading about a deer wandering through a forest primed Marisa to think about related concepts, such as walking along a trail, when she later encountered the jumbled letters in the puzzle.

Marisa Reads a Short Vignette About a Deer Wandering Through