According to a study discussed in your textbook, participants performing a lexical decision task were able to identify strings of letters such as "nutcracker" and "reindeer" as being real words faster in December than other times of the year
This indicates that the holiday season creates a ____________ effect for related certain words.
A) sentence verification
B) linguistic relativity
C) priming
D) categorization
Answer: C
Rationale: In this study, words such as "nutcracker" and "reindeer" showed priming effects at times when they were congruent (or "in season") in December, relative to other times of the year.
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