On One Trial of an Experiment,a Participant Is Shown the Sequence

question 45

Multiple Choice

On one trial of an experiment,a participant is shown the sequence GWXT.On a different trial,the participant is shown the sequence PAFE.On the basis of prior research,we should expect that

• A)PAFE will be easier to perceive than GWXT because detectors for PA and FE are likely to be well primed.
• B)the letter sequences will be equally difficult to perceive because neither is a word.
• C)participants will perceive more of the letters in GWXT because they are likely to confuse PAFE with PACE or SAFE.
• D)the letter sequences will be equally difficult to perceive because both contain regular bigram patterns.

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Definitions:

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