Suppose That You Are Trying to Read the Name of a Psychologist

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are trying to read the name of a psychologist who studies creativity, "Csikszentmihalyi." You find that you are silently pronouncing his name as you read it, because

A) your visuospatial sketchpad can maintain only a limited amount of information.
B) challenging words are automatically shunted off to the central executive.
C) the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop are both activated, because of the spatial nature of the unfamiliar letter sequence
D) the phonological loop plays a role in reading, as well as in memory.