Participants Are Asked to Judge Whether a String of Letters

question 165

Multiple Choice

Participants are asked to judge whether a string of letters forms a word in English. The first string they receive is the word violin. On a subsequent list of words, results show that the participants are substantially faster at answering "Yes" to the word piano than to the word toilet or basket. What does this result exemplify?

• A) episodic memory
• B) mental set
• C) automatization
• D) semantic priming

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