Visual Word Priming

There are various types of indirect tests. They can be grouped in three categories: visual word priming, auditory word priming, and visual object priming. Stem completion, fragment completion, word identification and lexical decision paradigms have been used to investigate visual word priming. In word stem completion task, participants are given the first letters of the critical word (e.g. let__) and are asked to complete the stem with the first word that comes to mind (e.g. lettuce). Participants who are using their implicit memory are usually unaware that they complete the task using words that they have previously seen (Schacter, 1987). In one study, subjects were asked to read some individually presented words. These words were randomly