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
Functional MRI Scans These scans of human brains show localized average increases in neural activity
Children can fast map the meanings of words in a single exposure.
With the research technique called brainbow, each neuron is labeled with a different color, ...
Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods, 6/E
The experimental protocol for recombination studies
Survivorship curves. Blue lines are theoretical curves. Red dots are data from field studies.