You Are Given a Series of Words on a Computer

Multiple Choice

You are given a series of words on a computer screen and asked to say the color that the word is printed in as quickly as possible. Your response time is especially long for the words PSYCHOLOGY, MIDTERM, and GRADUATION. The experimenter concludes that you are

A) responding to these words more slowly because they are very familiar as a result of studying.
B) having trouble focusing your eyes on these words.
C) anxious about your psychology midterm and fear that you will fail it and not graduate.
D) suffering from depression.