In a Sentence-Verification Task, Participants Respond to These Two Sentences

question 1

Multiple Choice

In a sentence-verification task, participants respond to these two sentences: "A canary has feathers," and "A canary is yellow." We should predict faster response times to the second sentence because:

• A) participants are slowed by semantic ambiguity
• B) participants' responses are faster to perceptual properties than to conceptual ones
• C) participants are faster in judging "isa" associations than they are in judging "hasa" associations
• D) the property of having feathers is associated with the bird node, not the canary node

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