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Studies in which research participants are lead to expect certain words (such as a story about fishermen leading to the reading of bass as to rhyme with mass) are called:
 
  A) ambiguous word stories
  B) homophonic stories
  C) down the garden path experiments
  D) fish stories
  E) none of the above

Question 2

The study of reading is important to psychologists because:
 
  A) psychologists are often teachers too
  B) it is helpful in determining font types in printing and tells us something of the nature of the perception
  C) it represents in a microcosm the relationship between eye/cognitive phenomena and is a type of basic
  research
  D) it may be applied to the improvement of the teaching of reading and it represents an interaction of stimuli
  and memory
  E) it tells us something of the history of writing systems and is of importance in finding out the cause of
  aphasia



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D



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