Exam 6: Recognizing Visual Words

Which of the following models states that when an ambiguous word is encountered, all senses are activated and (when the context permits) the appropriate word is chosen?

Presenting material before the word to which a response has to be made, is known as:

English contains a large number of irregular derivations (e.g., "ran," "ate," "mice," "sheep"), we have to list the exceptions separately, hence we can store a general rule and a list of exceptions. This hypothesis is called:

A task requires participants to make a decision that taps semantic processes (e.g., is the word "apple" a "fruit" or a "vegetable"?) Which type of categorization is this?

Sometimes we make mistakes, or need to check previous material and have to look backwards. These eye movements back to previous material are called:

Facilitation between pairs of words that are connected only through an intermediary (e.g. "dog" primes "cat," which primes "mouse") is known as which of the following types of priming?

In one of the following tasks, participants are shown words for very short presentation times and the experimenter records the thresholds at which participants can no longer confidently identify items. Which task is this?

Which of the following types of processing is fast, parallel, not prone to interference from other tasks, does not demand working memory space, cannot be prevented, and is not directly available to consciousness?

When a word can have two meanings, it is said to be:

The central idea of which model is that when we read, we fixate on a point, and then visual attention progresses across the line of text until a point is reached where the acuity limitations of the visual system make it difficult to extract more information and recognize new words?

The fovea is surrounded by the:

"Say the first word that comes to mind when I say . . . doctor." This is an example of which type of task?

The meaning of "depart" in "department" is not related to the meaning of "depart" in "departure." It is said to be:

The faster participants respond, the more errors they make. This is known as the:

In which of the following search models is perceptual processing followed by the sequential search of access files that point to an entry in the lexicon?

The system that computes the movements of the exact center of the pupil, and takes advantage of the fact that there are several sources of reflection from the eye, such as the cornea and the back of the lens, is which of the following systems?

Which of the following tasks requires participants to monitor spoken speech for a particular sound or phoneme, and to press a button when they detect it?

Which model consists of many simple processing units arranged in three levels: a visual input level, a level of units corresponding to individual letters, and an output level where each unit corresponds to a word?

According to which of the following views do we automatically access all the multiple senses of a word, use the context to select the appropriate reading, and then use the semantic information context to access the appropriate sense of the word?

Which of the following is the most sensitive part of the visual field, and corresponds to the central seven characters (or so) of average-size text, subtending the central 2° of vision?