Studies in which research participants are lead to expect certain words (such as a story about fishermen leading to the reading of bass as to rhyme with mass) are called:
A) ambiguous word stories
B) homophonic stories
C) down the garden path experiments
D) fish stories
E) none of the above
Question 2The study of reading is important to psychologists because:
A) psychologists are often teachers too
B) it is helpful in determining font types in printing and tells us something of the nature of the perception
C) it represents in a microcosm the relationship between eye/cognitive phenomena and is a type of basic
research
D) it may be applied to the improvement of the teaching of reading and it represents an interaction of stimuli
and memory
E) it tells us something of the history of writing systems and is of importance in finding out the cause of
aphasia
Question 3When asked to fill in the blanks of the following: I wish my sist-r would n-ver ans--r the t-lep-on-, we are demonstrating:
A) saccadic action
B) the reliance on vowels in the English language
C) how much information we bring to the task of common reading
D) an unfortunate stereotype about sisters in particular and women in general
E) none of the above
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