In Tachistoscopic Recognition,participants Often Make Overregularization Errors

question 59

Multiple Choice

In tachistoscopic recognition,participants often make overregularization errors.These are errors in which participants

• A)perceive a word as pertaining to their personal experiences even when the word is relatively neutral.
• B)perceive a word as being related to the previous word when in fact it is not.
• C)are shown a frequently used word but perceive it as an infrequently used word.
• D)are shown a pattern such as MJLK but perceive it as MILK.

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