Participants in many experiments show clear evidence of implicit memory but fail on comparable tests of explicit memory. Yet the participants could, in principle, rely on their implicit memories to guide their guessing in the explicit test. If they did, they would perform well on the explicit tests. The text suggests that participants fail to do this because

Participants seem to treat their implicit memories as though they were in reliable chance associations so they do not trust them to be actual memories

Explanation:

Implicit memory refers to the memory which is to be applied in the past in order to remember the things happen without thinking it also the performance is based on the experiences held in the past

while on the other hand the explicit memory refers to the memory in which you have to perform the task so that you can recall the things

So as per the given situation, the above is the answer

answer; criminal law;