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Yolanda

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Assume that you are working for a television network. A field reporter for a news program interviewed an individual who used some language too colorful for the air.
 
  Considering the phonemic restoration effect, how would you remove a questionable word so that it was not recognizable by the audience?
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Your roommate claims to always be behind in his work because he cannot read fast enough. He is considering taking a speed reading course. Knowing that you are in a cognition class, he asks if you think the course is a good idea.
 
  What would you tell him? Should he pay to take the speed reading course?
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: The phonemic restoration effect demonstrates our ability to supply a missing or poorly pronounced phoneme. Therefore, eliminating only the first or last sound of a word would still leave the word readily recognizable. To make sure the word is not known to the viewers, you should bleep out or eliminate the entire word (starting the bleep slightly before the word and continuing just after the word would produce the best results due to coarticulation).

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Using speed reading techniques for a college textbook is probably not a good idea. Textbooks contain new ideas and concepts that need effortful processing. That is one reason why speed readers do not comprehend what they read as well as people who read normally. Therefore, if he speed reads, your roommate might get done reading more quickly but he will remember less, which would impact his performance on tests and papers. He could, however, increase the speed with which he reads for leisure by skimming the material.



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