Which of the Following Students Provides the Best Overview About

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which of the following students provides the best overview about the research on theories of speech perception, as discussed in Chapter 2?

• A) Kaitlin: "Because speech is important to human survival, people have a specialized brain structure that helps them decode speech sounds."
• B) Anastazia: "The research on categorical perception provides the strongest evidence that the special mechanism approach to speech perception is correct."
• C) Samaria: "In general, most theorists believe that the human nervous system processes speech sounds in the same way it processes nonspeech sounds."
• D) Jared: "The research on the McGurk effect demonstrates that the special mechanism approach to speech perception is correct."

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that relies on the immediate examples that come to a person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.

Representative Heuristic

A mental shortcut that involves making a probability judgement by comparing an object or event to a prototype of the object or event.

Additive Strategy

An approach where elements are added together to solve problems or make decisions, often seen in mathematics or decision-making processes.

Anchoring

Overestimation of the importance of a factor by focusing on it to the exclusion of other relevant factors.