Chapter 9 Discusses a Study by Luo and His Colleagues

question 23

Multiple Choice

Chapter 9 discusses a study by Luo and his colleagues, in which people made semantic judgments about two-word sequences such as APPLE-PAIR. If the participants in this study judged that these two words were indeed semantically related, the results would support which of the following hypotheses about reading?

• A) The direct-access route
• B) The indirect-access route
• C) The modular hypothesis
• D) The cognitive-functional hypothesis

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