Mental models/Priming
Perception & Visual Processing

Priming

An implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus influences the response to another stimulus. Widely used in onboarding and landing page design.

In plain language

Exposure to one stimulus influences the response to the next. The first screen a user sees shapes how they interpret everything that follows.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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