Alex is reading a novel about WWII fighter pilots just before he serves as a subject in a lexical decision task. In the task he must decide whether each of the following letter strings is a word: alon, tear, bomb, caby.
Which string will he judge the fastest, and why?
a) Bomb, because of the priming effec
b) Alon, because of the serial position effect
c) Caby, because of the serial position effect
d) Tear, because of the priming effect
Question 2
In a task in which the subjects must remember a three-letter nonsense syllable, a researcher presents the syllable, then has subjects listen to an electronic beep for varying amounts of time, and then asks them to recall the nonsense syllable.
What factor might limit the researcher's ability to draw conclusions about memory decay with this procedure?
a) High likelihood of rehearsa
b) High likelihood of interference
c) High likelihood of the primacy effect
d) High likelihood of the recency effect
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