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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The correct answer is repetition priming, which refers to the phenomenon where exposure to a stimulus influences the response to a later stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. In this study, participants were more accurate in naming items they had seen before due to their previous exposure to those items, demonstrating an implicit memory effect known as repetition priming.

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