In a Lexical Decision Task in Which Subjects Must Judge

question 178

Multiple Choice

In a lexical decision task in which subjects must judge whether or not a string of letters forms a word in English, subjects are first shown the string BANANA. According to research on spreading activation, which of the subsequent strings will take the least time to be judged to be a real word?

• A) APPLE
• B) ANANAB
• C) MAVEN
• D) BANDANA

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