The sentence "I do not have to attend to what the cat will eat tomorrow" includes ten occurrences of the letter T. The Radvansky and Ashcraft text argues that people's difficulties in finding all of the Ts reflects __________
a. channel capacity
b. a failure to read the textbook
c. top-down processing
d. connectionist modeling
Answer: c
You might also like to view...
In decision making, when we make a false alarm, it is similar to a(n) _____ and when we make a miss, it is similar to a(n) _____
a. Type I error; Type II error b. Type II error; Type I error c. null hypothesis; alternative hypothesis d. alternative hypothesis; null hypothesis
An experimenter suspects that the relationship between fear and activity is curvilinear, such that as fear increases, activity increases up to a point and then declines. The appropriate design for an experiment that would test this hypothesis should use _____ as the inferential test
a. t test for independent samples c. one-way ANOVA b. t test for related samples d. two-way ANOVA
"Sounding out" words
a. is more common in older readers than in beginning readers. b. is commonly done by beginning readers. c. hinders reading ability. d. involves recognizing words through direct retrieval from long-term memory.
In a research experiment, Nathan hears the following list of words: orange, belt, table, swing, cheese, walk, sting, camel, shell, tan, ivy, cola, plane, screen, egg. When asked the words he remembers, which of the following is the most likely order in which Nathan will reply?
A. Egg, plane, screen, cola, belt, orange, table B. Orange, table, belt, camel, sting, screen, egg C. Screen, plane, egg, camel, shell, table, belt, tan D. Tan, belt, orange, egg, camel, walk, cola, table