An Experiment by Wilson and Emmorey (1998)gave Deaf Participants Signs

question 37

Multiple Choice

An experiment by Wilson and Emmorey (1998) gave deaf participants signs that were long,trying to mimic words that are long in length (have many letters) to see if they would find a "word length" effect.What happened in the experiment?

• A)There was no difference in memory for long signs or short signs.They were remembered the same.
• B)Recall was better for nouns over verbs,regardless of length of the signing motion.
• C)Recall was better for action words and verbs,regardless of the signing motion.
• D)Recall was worse for long signs,just as it is for words that are long in length.

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