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Marty

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Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following examples?
 
  a. When someone can easily select a target that has a feature distinct from distracters
  b. When someone cannot read an illegible word in a written sentence
  c. When someone easily identifies an object even though that object is unexpected in that context (e.g., identifying a telephone inside a refrigerator)
  d. When someone accurately identifies a word in a song on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception

Question 2

When Carlos moved to the U.S., he did not understand any English. Phrases like Anna Mary Can Pi And I Scream Class Hick didn't make any sense to him. Now that Carlos has been learning English, he recognizes this phrase as An American Pie and Ice Cream Classic. This example illustrates that Carlos was not capable of ____ in English.
 
  a. speech segmentation
  b. the likelihood principle
  c. bottom-up processing
  d. algorithms


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vickybb89

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a


Marty

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

sarah_brady415

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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