Exam 7: Word Recognition

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 Prime: NURSE (50 ms) Mask: ##### (500 ms) Target: DOCTOR Unrelated Prime Prime: WRENCH (50 ms) Mask: ###### (500 ms) Target: DOCTOR

_______ is required to identify the distinct phonemes contained in the word trilobite, a difficult task for young children and illiterate adults.

At the county fair, you hear your sister yell, "Look at the be_ le." You are surrounded by barking dogs and thus interpret be_ le as beagle, not beetle. Proponents of _______ would argue that your awareness of the context affected your interpretation of the ambiguous word.

You hear the sentence "Liam was out in the yard digging in the garden," and subsequently you recognize the word mole faster as the animal and not in the sense of being a spy. Which is not a realistic explanation for this effect?

The equation 4 + 3 = 7 conveys meaning using a _______ writing system, whereas the word seven conveys meaning using a _______ writing system.

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?

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?

Which word activation sequence best represents what you would expect to occur during mediated semantic priming?

Imagine you are learning an obscure language spoken by only a few dozen people in the Sahara Desert. They tell you the translation for "apple" in their language is pronounced "kal-ko-MAR-ko." They write this word like so: What type of writing system do these Saharans use?

If you are shopping at a market in a country where you do not speak or read the language, you are most likely to understand how much to pay for goods if their prices are presented in

_______ is the phenomenon in which it takes longer to recognize a word that shares sounds with many other words than it does to recognize a word that is very phonetically distinct from other words.

Refer to the figure. Based on the figure, describe the effects of context on word activation and how the models in A and B differ with regard to how they characterize the influence of context on understanding the ambiguous word bank.

Which scenario provides evidence of inhibition?

Consider Perfetti et al.'s 2010 analysis of which brain areas are activated during reading of Chinese and English characters and what you know about the differences between the alphabetic and logographic writing systems. What advice would you give an English speaker learning to read Chinese?

Refer to the figure. Based on Allopenna et al.'s 1998 study, describe the time course of spoken word activation and what would happen as subjects hear the word beaker while viewing this figure.

Which scenario illustrates implicit priming of behavior?

Which of the following words has the highest phonetic neighborhood density?

If participants were asked to complete a lexical decision task, which priming word would result in the fastest recognition of bread as a real word?

Which of the following is not a factor affecting word recognition time?

The uniqueness point for the word rotund is