A psychological understanding of slip-of-the-tongue errors:

a) has not advanced much beyond the initial ideas of Sigmund Freud on what are now called Freudian slips.
b) advanced considerably when behavioral psychologists studied speech production in terms of imitation.
c) reveals that such errors are attempts by the right cerebral hemisphere to control the left cerebral hemisphere.
d) has been advanced with a connectionist theory that includes spreading activation.


Ans: d) has been advanced with a connectionist theory that includes spreading activation.

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