Reference no: EM133271050

Question 1.

Here is a lexical decision task in which a prime is presented very briefly, covered by a "mask," and then followed by a target word. What is the rationale for using this masked priming methodology?

Related Prime Unrelated Prime

Prime: NURSE (50 ms) Mask: ##### (500 ms)

Prime: WRENCH (50 ms) Mask: ###### (500 ms)

Target: DOCTOR Target: DOCTOR

a) It reduces the likelihood that participants will use a task-specific strategy of trying to think of words related to NURSE or WRENCH.

b) It increases the likelihood that participants will respond faster to DOCTOR when it is preceded by a related word, such as NURSE, than an unrelated word, like WRENCH.

c) It decreases the likelihood that participants will respond faster to DOCTOR when it is preceded by a related word, such as NURSE, than an unrelated word, like WRENCH.

d) It allows researchers to present the target stimulus at just the right time when a priming effect is most likely to occur.

Question 2.

If you were designing a study, which of the following two words would not be fair to include in the same condition due to differences in how they are accessed?

a) Battle and paddle because they rhyme and are a minimal pair

b) Doctor and ornithologist because they differ in frequency, length and age of acquisition

c) Teacher and teaches because they are two different parts of speech

d) Love and peace because they are too conceptually similar and conceptually abstract

Question 3.

As you begin to hear the word storm, other phonetically similar words such as store and stomp may also be activated during the first few hundred milliseconds of storm. Which model or effect best accounts for this type of spoken word activation?

a) Neighborhood density effect

b) Marslen-Wilson's cohort model

c) McGurk effect

d) Implicit semantic priming

Question 4.

Imagine that your child is learning a popular holiday song, and instead of singing "All of the other reindeer," she has learned the words as "Olive, the other reindeer." This is an example of

a) the rhyme effect.

b) a homograph.

c) a mondegreen.

d) the Ganong effect.

Question 5.

Which example supports the idea that semantic information about cohort competitors may be activated during incremental language processing?

a) Presentation of batter speeds up lexical decision responses to battle and bat.

b) Presentation of batter increases eye fixation times for an image of a soldier compared with a librarian.

c) Presentation of batter increases eye fixation times for an image of a bat compared with a phone.

d) Presentation of batter speeds up lexical decision responses to cake.