Language

Question 1

Visual word recognition is a very fast process. Give 2 pieces of evidence to support this.

Answer 1

The stroop effect shows that we can’t ignore the word in a colour naming task. Hauk et al (2006) investigated typicality and lexicality & found that we can distinguish between real words and pseudowords in milliseconds.

Question 2

Which characteristic of word recognition did Bisson et al (2012) show in his study using subtitles?

Answer 2

Bisson et al (2012) found that visual word recognition is automatic as the eye movements of the ppts focused on the subtitles even when they were in a foreign language

Question 3

Name the 4 ways word recognition can be investigated

Answer 3

Lexical decision task, Naming task, Priming and Perceptual identification.

Question 4

How can we measure word recognition?

Answer 4

Eye movements, event-related potentials, fMRI and response times.