Occasionally, readers encounter unknown words and must determine their meanings from the surrounding ...

Occasionally, readers encounter unknown words and must determine their meanings from the surrounding context. When this happens, readers with ____ use well-formulated strategies to figure out word meanings whereas readers with ____ use no clear strategy.
 
  a. normal abilities; dyslexia
 b. high verbal encoding; low verbal encoding
 c. above-average intelligence; below-average intelligence
  d. large vocabularies; small vocabularies

Ques. 2

____ involves units of language larger than individual sentences.
 
  a. Discourse
 b. Syntax
 c. Semantics
 d. Pragmatics

Ques. 3

____ encoding is the process by which we translate sensory information (i.e., the written words we see) into a meaningful representation.
 
  a. Semantic
 b. Syntactic
 c. Cultural
 d. Perceptual

Ques. 4

In the ____ effect, letters are read more easily when they are embedded in words than when they are presented either in isolation or with letters that do not form words.
 
  a. word-superiority
 b. word-context
 c. letter-identification
 d. perceptual-facilitation

Ques. 5

The word-superiority effect is also known as the ____ effect.
 
  a. Hoffding
 b. Hubel-Weisel
 c. Reicher-Wheeler
 d. Rumelhart-McClelland

Ques. 6

What is the most basic level of processing in Rumelhart and McClelland's Interactive-Activation Model?
 
  a. word
 b. phoneme
  c. letter
 d. feature

Ques. 7

____ combines information of different kinds, such as the features of letters, the letters themselves, and the words comprising the letters.
 
  a. Lexical encoding
 b. Lexical access
 c. Semantic retrieval
 d. Semantic encoding

Ques. 8

When people speed-read, they show ____.
 
  a. fewer and shorter fixations
  b. more but shorter fixations
  c. fewer but longer fixations
  d. more and longer fixations