When Participants in a Dichotic Listening Task with Word Stimuli

question 59

Multiple Choice

When participants in a dichotic listening task with word stimuli are asked afterward to report as many items as possible, they consistently produce the words that were presented to the right ear much more frequently than the words that were presented to the left ear. This phenomenon is called

• A)binaural integration.
• B)the word superiority effect.
• C)the right-ear advantage.
• D)the frequency hypothesis.

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