PSYB57H3 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 notes
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Some language are bottom up and some are driven by listener"s expectations; some occurs. In a study by maeslen- wilson and welsh, participants were asked to shadow speech aloud. Speech errors in production: speech errors are instances in which what the speaker intended ot say quite clear, but they make some substitution or reorders the elements. Retrieving meaning- single words: lexical decision task- presented letter strings and asked to decide if they are proper words or not. Observers are faster and more accurate in making a decision when a target word is preceded by another word, called a prime that is associated in meaning. These types of pairs showed the normal priming effect (they were faster to respond if the prime was related to the word). Then he also presented prime target pairs where they were unrelated, such as building- foot.
