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What is the Post-Identification Feedback Effect in eyewitness memory?

  • Eyewitnesses become less confident in their identification after receiving confirming feedback
  • Eyewitnesses mistakenly believe they were very confident in their identification after receiving confirming feedback (correct)
  • Eyewitnesses develop complete amnesia after receiving confirming feedback
  • Eyewitnesses become more accurate in their identification after receiving confirming feedback

What impact does high levels of stress have on eyewitness memory?

  • High levels of stress have no impact on eyewitness memory
  • High levels of stress have a negative impact on eyewitness memory (correct)
  • High levels of stress enhance eyewitness memory
  • High levels of stress have a positive impact on eyewitness memory

How many suspects are arrested each year after being identified by eyewitnesses?

  • 10,000
  • 375
  • More than 100,000
  • 77,000 (correct)

How many overturned cases involved eyewitness errors, based on DNA evidence?

<p>More than 75% (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Word Superiority Effect?

<p>A target letter is more readily detected in a letter string when the letter string forms a word than when it does not (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the impact of internal letter transpositions on reaction time (RT)?

<p>11% increase in RT (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does lexical priming facilitate?

<p>Words facilitate responses to related words (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of processing do masked priming studies provide evidence in favor of?

<p>Automatic processing (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In lexical decision tasks, which type of words were verified more rapidly?

<p>High-frequency words (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do people briefly access for ambiguous words, according to Tanenhaus et al. (1979)?

<p>All meanings of a word (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of words are most likely to cause processing problems due to lexical ambiguity?

<p>Words with biased meaning dominance (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what region did high baseball knowledge make it more difficult to 'let go' of the dominant meaning for ambiguous words?

<p>Disambiguating region (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what region did low baseball knowledge make ambiguous words more difficult than control words?

<p>Post-target region (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What meanings are activated for ambiguous words, according to the text?

<p>All meanings (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the impact of lexical ambiguity in words with balanced meaning dominance, according to the text?

<p>Balanced dominance &gt; Biased dominance (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what tasks were words with large phonological neighborhoods verified more rapidly?

<p>Lexical decision tasks (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the due date for Article Reflection 7?

<p>Thursday at 10 am (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of effect did DeLong et al. find to be larger?

<p>N400 effect to airplane (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did replication attempts find in relation to N400 differences?

<p>N400 differences on the noun itself but not on the article (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did work using a visual world paradigm find about participant behavior?

<p>Participants will look to a relevant object before the conclusion of a sentence (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for sentences that begin by appearing to mean one thing, but then end up meaning something else?

<p>Garden Path Sentences (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the mental grouping of words in a sentence into phrases called?

<p>Parsing (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for sentences that are understood not through linear ordering, but through mental grouping of words into phrases?

<p>Parsing (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What approach emphasizes the influence of both story context and scene context on sentence parsing?

<p>Constraint-Based Approach (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for sentences that appear to mean one thing at the beginning, but end up meaning something else?

<p>Garden Path Sentences (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the mental grouping of words in a sentence into phrases to determine the meaning of the sentence?

<p>Parsing (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of sentences require readers to reanalyze the structure due to temporary ambiguity?

<p>Garden Path Sentences (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of sentences do not rely on linear ordering for comprehension, but rather on mental grouping of words into phrases?

<p>Garden Path Sentences (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is language?

<p>A system of communication using sounds or symbols to express feelings and ideas (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is meant by 'Displacement' in the context of language?

<p>The ability to speak about things and events other than those occurring in the present (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is 'Cultural Transmission' in the context of language?

<p>Language is culturally transmitted, not inherited (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the 'Productivity' of language?

<p>The capacity for elements of the communication system to be combined to form new meaning (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main argument presented by Colston and Gibbs regarding figurative language?

<p>Figurative language is direct because it demonstrates, not just describes. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of studying figurative language comprehension?

<p>To understand the time course of figurative meaning activation. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the example provided to illustrate an idiom?

<p>Tom kicked the bucket yesterday (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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