Suppose That You Are Trying to Read the Name of a Psychologist

question 75

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are trying to read the name of a psychologist who studies creativity, "Csikszentmihalyi." You find that you are silently pronouncing his name as you read it, because

• A) your visuospatial sketchpad can maintain only a limited amount of information.
• B) challenging words are automatically shunted off to the central executive.
• C) the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop are both activated, because of the spatial nature of the unfamiliar letter sequence
• D) the phonological loop plays a role in reading, as well as in memory.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

Confidence Interval is a range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a certain level of confidence.

Contrast

In statistics, a method used to compare different treatments or groups by defining specific linear combinations of parameters estimated in a model.

Confidence Limits

The upper and lower boundaries of a confidence interval, which estimate the range within which a population parameter lies with a certain level of confidence.

Population Mean

The average of all the values in a population, which is the total set of individuals, items, or data under study.