Your textbook discussed in some detail a study by Rueckl and Oden (the "bears/beans" study). These researchers manipulated both the features of a letter within a word and the context in which the word appeared
This study demonstrated that
a. both bottom-up and top-down processing operate.
b. under appropriate conditions, people only pay attention to distinctive features.
c. sensory memory can be extended when a word appears in context.
d. top-down processing almost always leads to more accurate pattern recognition.
Ans: a
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