When the front part of a sentence can be interpreted more than one way, but the end of the sentence clarifies which meaning is correct, we say that the sentence is an example of
A. parsing.
B. temporary ambiguity.
C. speech segmentation.
D. lexical priming.
Answer: C
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a. for predicting occupational success, clinical diagnosis, and research. b. only with subjects whose first language is English. c. specially with neurotics and people with organic brain damage. d. with children younger than 16 years and adults older than 60 years of age.
When Judy is asked, "What's 2 + 2?" the answer just seems to pop into her head. This is an example of a. implicit memory
b. attentional control. c. cross-linking. d. explicit memory.
Lydia Tan has been living with her paranoid schizophrenic husband on an isolated farm for so long that she has come to accept his irrational beliefs. When she visits her sister, her delusions weaken. Mrs. Tan's condition is called ____
a. schizophreniform disorder b. Capgras delusion c. schizoaffective disorder d. shared psychotic delusion
Given a normal distribution, as zscores' absolute values increase, those z-scores and the raw scores that correspond to them occur
a. more frequently. b. less frequently. c. more frequently at first and then less frequently. d. less frequently at first and then more frequently.