When an Experimenter Flashes the Letter P on the Screen

question 215

Multiple Choice

When an experimenter flashes the letter P on the screen for a split second, you cannot identify it. Yet when the experimenter flashes PARK on the screen for the same period of time, you do identify it. This is an example of the

• A) Stroop effect.
• B) availability heuristic.
• C) representativeness heuristic.
• D) word-superiority effect.

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