The "general mechanism approach" to speech perception argues that

a. we first obtain a general idea about a spoken message, and then we fill in the specific details.
b. we use similar processes for both speech perception and other auditory perception tasks.
c. learning does not play a major role in speech perception.
d. children are born with a general understanding about speech, and they fill in specific information as they grow older.


Ans: b

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