PSYC 2650 Chapter 4: Chapter 4

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Impaired in tasks that require them to judge how the features are bound together to form complex objects. Word recognition: once detection has occurred, separate mechanisms are needed to put the features together, assembling them into complete objects. If the stimulus is a word, we can measure familiarity by counting how often that word appears in print, and these counts are an excellent predictor of tachistoscopic recognition: another factor is recency of view. If you view a word and then a little later view it again, they will recognise the word much more readily the second time around: the first exposure primes the participant for the second exposure repetition priming. The word-superiority effect: words themselves are easier to perceive than isolated letters word- superiority effect, usually demonstrated with a two alternative, forced choice procedure. English-like the string is (measured statistically), the easier it will be to recognize that string, and the greater the context benefit the string will produce.