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Subjects in an online comprehension task read ambiguous sentences and then they are timed while making judgments in which they decide which of two strings of letters is a word. What is the likely purpose of such a study?
 
  a) To gain insight into their cognitive processes while interpreting ambiguous materia
 b) To gain insight into their speed of comprehending ambiguous language
 c) To gain insight into their accuracy of language comprehension
 d) To gain insight into their semantic knowledge about the topic of each sentence.

Question 2

Subjects in a memory task must recall a list of words that have similar sounds. Which of the following procedures would reduce the phonological similarity effect for this task?
 
  a) Presenting the words at the end of lines of a poe
 b) Using articulatory suppression as a distractor
 c) Reducing the amount of delay before recall
 d) Using a visuo-spatial task as the distractor



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Answer to Question 1

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a0266361136

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Gracias!


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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