In a classic study by Meyer and Schvaneveldt (1971), participants were shown pairs of words. Participants' goal was to indicate whether both words were real words by pressing "yes" if they were or "no" if they were not
Participants responded faster when the two words were related in meaning (e.g., nurse and doctor) than when the two words were not related in meaning (e.g., nurse and butter). These results demonstrate an effect of content knowledge known as ___.
a. encoding of distinctive features
b. spreading activation
c. strategy learning
d. metacognition
B
Psychology
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