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:

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