Week 9 - Word Recognition and Reading

The average adult reader can read words at ____ words per minute.

Word spelling: [blank_start]Orthography[blank_end] Sounding of words: [blank_start]Phonology[blank_end] Meaning of words: [blank_start]Semantics[blank_end] Rules for combining words: [blank_start]Syntax[blank_end] Making inferences from available information: [blank_start]Discourse processing[blank_end]

Do you know what the stroop effect is?

In a semantic stroop task, a participant is to name the colour of the font and the word is either semantically incongruent or neutral. For example the font colour is green and the words sky (incongruent) and book (neutral) are presented. What would we predict in relation to reaction times from this example.

The word "clip" being processed faster when preceded by "klip" and relatively slower when preceded by "plip" is an example of?

Which of the following describes the word superiority effect?

The word "judge" is responded to faster if it is primed by "jugde" rather than "junpe", this is an example of the...

A language that has some spelling to sound mappings that are not consistent is referred to as having [blank_start]deep/opaque[blank_end] orthography. In contrast, languages with consistent grapheme to phoneme mappings has a [blank_start]shallow/transparent[blank_end] orthography.

According to the dual route model of reading, words read using the non-lexical route are read quicker than in the lexical route. This effect is reduced/eliminated for words in the lexical route when...

Which of the following are characteristic of deep dyslexia?

The [blank_start]connectionist[blank_end] model describes [blank_start]consistency[blank_end], which applies to words and nonwords. It relates to a words pronunciation being consistent with all other words of similar spelling. The [blank_start]dual route[blank_end] model describes [blank_start]regularity[blank_end], which applies to words only. It relates to whether or not a word follows the standard phoneme mapping rules.

Jared (2002) showed that a regular and consistent word had faster reaction times than a regular inconsistent word. This effect was also present for high frequency words. What does this suggest about regularity vs consistency?

What are some of the characteristics of saccades?

[blank_start]Fixations[blank_end] last 250ms Regressions are [blank_start]right[blank_end] to [blank_start]left[blank_end] movements

The perceptual span is...

Of the words we fixate on. About [blank_start]80%[blank_end] are content words such as nouns, verbs or adjectives. [blank_start]20%[blank_end] are functional words such as articles. conjunctions and pronouns.