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Studying for an exam or final can be a stressful experience, in order to ease the anxiety and stress of a situation one may choose to speed up the process or distract themselves with task in effort to continue working. Now suppose you are studying for a Spanish final coming up, you have left your window of study time very small and attempt to fit it in as you do things around the house, if you choose to study Spanish as you perform a task like laundry you can successfully fit it in. In doing your laundry you can find yourself counting off the steps to your routine in Spanish, allowing you to carefully load your washer, and dryer, while gaining understanding in numbers. If you're an individual who goes to a washateria you can easy practice speaking …show more content…

2.) Implicit and explicit memory differ in both our understanding of them and the ways in which they are tested today. Implicit memory is understood as the unconscious effects or memories we have that do not require control on our part (lecture notes chapter 7, p10). Implicit memory is a "natural response" that can be given with no explanation or reasoning behind it. This particular form of memory, known as indirect memory, is tested with priming task. Priming task (Reisberg, 2015, p241) can present itself in many forms in one campaign for George Bush he primed audiences with the word RATS into the word bureaucrats, this courses lecture we seen it presented to us in the form of an eggplant that was flashed throughout the slides until a fill in the blank opportunity was presented (lecture video 7-03). The priming task calls for our current behaviors to use the influences from our previous experiences, even though we do not know it. Recognition priming with faces also effects our responses a victim of a crime may come into a police station and pass a man in handcuff as she heads to an identification line up, once in line she can pick a man who more resembles the individual from the hall than her attacker, assuming she didn't study her

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