Author Question: Suppose that you are trying to read the name of a psychologist who studies creativity, ... (Read 51 times)

savannahhooper · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose that you are trying to read the name of a psychologist who studies creativity, Csikszentmihalyi. You find that you are silently pronouncing his name as you read it, because

a. your visuospatial sketchpad can maintain only a limited amount of information.
b. challenging words are automatically shunted off to the central executive.
c. the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop are both activated, because of the spatial nature of the unfamiliar letter sequence
d. the phonological loop plays a role in reading, as well as in memory.

Question 2

In Chapter 4, the In-Depth Section described research by Leonor Romero Lauro and her colleagues, which used a method called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. These authors concluded that

a. working memory really is a storehouse that has a limit of 5 to 9 items.
b. the left parietal lobe and the left frontal lobe are both relevant when you are reading long sentences with complex grammar.
c. the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere are equally involved in language comprehension.
d. the left hemisphere is relevant for long sentences, whereas the right hemisphere is relevant for complex sentences .