Priming in lexical decision tasks may be explained by the idea of ______.

A) episodic memory
B) encoding specificity
C) spreading activation
D) typicality effects

Spreading Activation

A theory in cognitive psychology that suggests ideas in memory are connected and that the activation of one idea can trigger the activation of related ideas.

Lexical Decision Tasks

A psychological experiment that involves determining whether a string of letters is a word or a non-word.