Suppose That You Are Reading a Journal Article That Supports

question 80

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are reading a journal article that supports the "special mechanism approach" to speech perception. Which of the following statements would you be most likely to see?

• A) Humans have an inborn ability that helps them perceive speech sounds.
• B) Humans can perceive speech sounds especially well when the sounds are accompanied by music.
• C) Speech perception operates in the same way as visual perception.
• D) We can remember spoken sentences better than printed sentences.

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Definitions:

Extrasensory Perception

The claimed ability to obtain information about the environment or the future beyond the use of the known senses.

Unparsimonious

Describes explanations or theories that are more complex or include more assumptions than necessary to explain phenomena.

Falsifiable

A criterion of scientific theory that requires it to be capable of being proven false through observation or experiment.

Replicable

Capable of being repeated or duplicated under similar conditions, often used in the context of experiments or studies to verify results.