Your textbook discussed in some detail a study by Rueckl and Oden (the bears/beans study). These researchers manipulated both the features of a letter within a word and the context in which the word appeared.
This study demonstrated that
a. both bottom-up and top-down processing operate.
b. under appropriate conditions, people only pay attention to distinctive features.
c. sensory memory can be extended when a word appears in context.
d. top-down processing almost always leads to more accurate pattern recognition.
Question 2
You can identify a letter more accurately when it appears in a word than when it does not. This phenomenon is called the
a. letter superiority effect.
b. bottom-up effect.
c. word superiority effect.
d. change-blindness effect.