35 Questions
What is the Post-Identification Feedback Effect in eyewitness memory?
Eyewitnesses mistakenly believe they were very confident in their identification after receiving confirming feedback
What impact does high levels of stress have on eyewitness memory?
High levels of stress have a negative impact on eyewitness memory
How many suspects are arrested each year after being identified by eyewitnesses?
77,000
How many overturned cases involved eyewitness errors, based on DNA evidence?
More than 75%
What is the Word Superiority Effect?
A target letter is more readily detected in a letter string when the letter string forms a word than when it does not
What is the impact of internal letter transpositions on reaction time (RT)?
11% increase in RT
What does lexical priming facilitate?
Words facilitate responses to related words
What type of processing do masked priming studies provide evidence in favor of?
Automatic processing
In lexical decision tasks, which type of words were verified more rapidly?
High-frequency words
What do people briefly access for ambiguous words, according to Tanenhaus et al. (1979)?
All meanings of a word
What type of words are most likely to cause processing problems due to lexical ambiguity?
Words with biased meaning dominance
In what region did high baseball knowledge make it more difficult to 'let go' of the dominant meaning for ambiguous words?
Disambiguating region
In what region did low baseball knowledge make ambiguous words more difficult than control words?
Post-target region
What meanings are activated for ambiguous words, according to the text?
All meanings
What is the impact of lexical ambiguity in words with balanced meaning dominance, according to the text?
Balanced dominance > Biased dominance
In what tasks were words with large phonological neighborhoods verified more rapidly?
Lexical decision tasks
What is the due date for Article Reflection 7?
Thursday at 10 am
Which type of effect did DeLong et al. find to be larger?
N400 effect to airplane
What did replication attempts find in relation to N400 differences?
N400 differences on the noun itself but not on the article
What did work using a visual world paradigm find about participant behavior?
Participants will look to a relevant object before the conclusion of a sentence
What is the term for sentences that begin by appearing to mean one thing, but then end up meaning something else?
Garden Path Sentences
What is the mental grouping of words in a sentence into phrases called?
Parsing
What is the term for sentences that are understood not through linear ordering, but through mental grouping of words into phrases?
Parsing
What approach emphasizes the influence of both story context and scene context on sentence parsing?
Constraint-Based Approach
What is the term for sentences that appear to mean one thing at the beginning, but end up meaning something else?
Garden Path Sentences
What is the term for the mental grouping of words in a sentence into phrases to determine the meaning of the sentence?
Parsing
What type of sentences require readers to reanalyze the structure due to temporary ambiguity?
Garden Path Sentences
What type of sentences do not rely on linear ordering for comprehension, but rather on mental grouping of words into phrases?
Garden Path Sentences
What is language?
A system of communication using sounds or symbols to express feelings and ideas
What is meant by 'Displacement' in the context of language?
The ability to speak about things and events other than those occurring in the present
What is 'Cultural Transmission' in the context of language?
Language is culturally transmitted, not inherited
What is the 'Productivity' of language?
The capacity for elements of the communication system to be combined to form new meaning
What is the main argument presented by Colston and Gibbs regarding figurative language?
Figurative language is direct because it demonstrates, not just describes.
What is the purpose of studying figurative language comprehension?
To understand the time course of figurative meaning activation.
What is the example provided to illustrate an idiom?
Tom kicked the bucket yesterday
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