In a Lexical Decision Task in Which Participants Must Judge

question 166

Multiple Choice

In a lexical decision task in which participants must judge whether a string of letters forms a word in English, participants are first shown the string BANANA. Based on what you know about categories and spreading activation, which of the following strings might participants then judge the most rapidly

• A)APPLE
• B)ANANAB
• C)MAVEN
• D)BANDANA