In Reber's Studies of Nonanalytic Concept Formation in Which Participants

question 19

Multiple Choice

In Reber's studies of nonanalytic concept formation in which participants attempted to learn to categorize letter strings derived from complex "grammars," ______.

• A)participants who learned letter strings that followed the grammar made fewer errors than control participants learning random strings
• B)participants who were told that the letter strings followed complex rules performed better than did those participants who did not know this
• C)the best performance came from participants who successfully figured out the rule for generating the letter strings
• D)memorizing exemplars was an ineffective strategy in category learning

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