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kellyjaisingh

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Rayner, White, Johnson, and Liversedge (2006) examined fixation times for words that were normal or jumbled. They found that
 
  a) words with the internal letters transposed had the longest fixation times.
   b) words with the initial letter transposed had the longest fixation times.
   c) fixation times for normal words and for words with ending letters transposed were the same.
   d) there was no difference between words with internal, ending, or beginning letters transposed.

Question 2

Bai, Yan, Zang, Liversedge, & Rayner investigated word/character recognition in written Chinese. Their major question was whether characters or words would prove to be the fundamental unit of processing in reading Chinese. Their results indicated
 
  a) spacing out the characters more than usual enhanced performance.
   b) word spacing led to better reading performance than the spacing typically used in written Chinese.
   c) word spacing led to poorer performance than the spacing typically used in written Chinese.
   d) word spacing led to equal performance, relative to the spacing typically used in written Chinese.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b



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