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Peer reviewedJohnston, James C. – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
Experiments tested the predictions that words are perceived more accurately in strongly constraining word contexts than in weakly constraining word contexts, and that a strong perceptual advantage would be present for letters in words vs. letters alone or in unrelated-letter strings. Several alternative theories of word perception are discussed.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education, Learning Theories
