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In a study, participants listened to the following tape recording: Rumor had it that, for years, the government building had been plagued with problems. The man was not surprised when he found several spiders, roaches, and other bugs in the corner of the room. As participants heard the word bugs, they completed a lexical decision task to a test stimulus flashed on a screen. To which of the following words would you expect participants to take the longest to respond to?
 
  a. ANT.
  b. SPY.
  c. SKY.
  d. ROACH

Question 2

Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on
 
  a. the identification of a single meaning for that word.
  b. the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.
  c. the word that comes immediately before and the word that comes immediately after the ambiguous word in the sentence.
  d. a bottom-up progression of meaning comprehension.



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Briannahope

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b




colton

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Gracias!


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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