Alex is reading a novel about WWII fighter pilots just before he serves as a subject in a lexical decision task. In the task he must decide whether each of the following letter strings is a word: alon, tear, bomb, caby
Which string will he judge the fastest, and why?
a) Bomb, because of the priming effec
b) Alon, because of the serial position effect
c) Caby, because of the serial position effect
d) Tear, because of the priming effect
A
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A. transfer-appropriate processing B. parallel distributed processing C. levels-of-processing D. information-processing
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a) pragmatics. b) syntax. c) morphemes. d) semantics.
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A. surgery B. radiation C. chemotherapy D. drug therapy