Priming is another, smaller subset of implicit memory. It involves using pictures, words or other stimuli to help someone recognize another word or phrase in the future.

Is priming implicit or explicit memory?

Priming: Priming is a non conscious form of human implicit memory concerned with perceptual identification of words and objects. Priming can be associative, negative, positive, affective, conceptual, perceptual, repetitive, or semantic.

What type of memory is priming?

One example of such priming is when a child playing a violent video game has violent thoughts they might not otherwise have. Priming in memory. Priming is a form of implicit memory—a memory associated with some other stimulus.