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tingc95

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Chapter 9 discussed a linguistics program called latent semantic analysis (LSA), which evaluates essays. According to this discussion, the LSA program
 
  a. is a direct application of Chomsky's linguistic theory.
  b. is especially skilled at detecting creative answers to an essay question.
  c. searches to see if the student's essay is semantically similar to the material that the student had read.
  d. grades the essays according to their similarity to a well-established script.

Question 2

Your textbook discussed the research on test anxiety, study skills, and reading-comprehension scores in undergraduates. According to this research,
 
  a. students who have high test anxiety tend to report having good study skills, but they still tend to perform poorly on reading-comprehension tests.
  b. students who have high test anxiety report having poor study skills.
  c. students who have high test anxiety do not differ from less anxious students on reading-comprehension tests.
  d. students who have high test anxiety do not differ from low-anxiety students when making inferences from textbook material.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: c

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b



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