McClelland and Rumelhart's Model of Word Recognition Suggests That Detectors

question 41

Multiple Choice

McClelland and Rumelhart's model of word recognition suggests that detectors on separate levels can interact in a bidirectional manner.Biological evidence ________ this notion because ________.

• A)supports;visual processing is bidirectional
• B)supports;there is parallel processing in the visual system
• C)does not support;visual processing is an entirely bottom-up process
• D)does not support;word recognition does not depend on visual processing

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Definitions:

Freudian Slips

Mistakes in speech that are theorized to unconsciously reveal something hidden in the speaker's mind, according to psychoanalytic theory.

Hypnosis

A trance-like state of focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and increased responsiveness to suggestion, often used for therapeutic purposes.

Topographic Model

Freud’s original model of personality structure, in which personality is divided into three different levels of awareness.

Preconscious

In Freud’s topographic model, the part of personality that contains thoughts that can be brought into awareness with little difficulty.