In a Study by Bowers and Colleagues (1990),participants Were Shown

question 174

Multiple Choice

In a study by Bowers and colleagues (1990) ,participants were shown three words and were asked to generate a fourth word consistent with the series.These researchers found that participants:

• A)could not distinguish series that were solvable from those that were not above chance levels.
• B)exhibited a strong bias to report that series were solvable.
• C)exhibited a strong bias to report that series were unsolvable.
• D)could classify series as solvable or unsolvable,even if they could not solve them.

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Definitions:

Transformational Grammar

A theory of grammar that considers the syntactic structures of language as being generated by a set of rules.

Deep Structure

In linguistics, the underlying syntactic structure or meaning of a sentence, as opposed to the surface structure which is how the sentence is expressed verbally.

Surface Structure

In linguistics, the term refers to the outward form of a sentence, which can vary without altering its deep structure or meaning.

Stroop Effect

A demonstration of cognitive interference where a delay in the reaction time of a task occurs due to a mismatch between the name of a color (e.g., "red," "blue") and the color it is printed in.