Participants in an Experiment Are Asked to Decide as Quickly

question 48

Multiple Choice

Participants in an experiment are asked to decide as quickly as possible whether a briefly presented stimulus is or is not a word. This is called

• A) a lexical decision task.
• B) counterbalancing.
• C) a practice effect.
• D) a within-subjects design.

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Definitions:

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