Which of the Following Is an Example of an Effect

question 9

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of an effect of top-down processing?

• A) Recognizing a crying friend's sounds as words in a sentence
• B) Seeing a flash of lightning in a thunderstorm
• C) Walking all around a car and always knowing it's a car
• D) Perceiving all of the birds in a flock as belonging together

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Definitions:

Positive Correlation

A statistical relationship where two variables move in tandem; as one variable increases, the other does as well.

Bivariate

Involving or dependent on two variables, often used in statistical analyses to examine the relationship between two sets of data.

Continuous Variables

Variables that can take an infinite number of values within a given range.

Product-moment

A statistical measure of the linear correlation between two variables, often expressed as Pearson's correlation coefficient.