A computer demonstration of the word fragment completion effect was developed to enhance students' comprehension of an experimental paradigm used in cognitive psychology. The robust word fragment completion effect is used to introduce students to the implicit memory paradigm and to illustrate the advantages inherent in such a procedure. The demonstration is a useful tool for comparing and contrasting experimental procedures; it also provides a starting point for a discussion of multiple memory models.
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