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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%</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

    What does lexical priming facilitate?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    What is the due date for Article Reflection 7?

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

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

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

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

    <p>Parsing</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</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</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</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</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</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is language?

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

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

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

    What is the example provided to illustrate an idiom?

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

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