• What might it suggest if a student's recall for letters within words was better than for those in isolation?
• What kind of processing does the word superiority effect suggest, top-down (conceptual) or bottom-up (perceptual)? In your answer, be sure to describe both top-down and bottom-up processing.
• What do you think a sentence superiority effect is?
• Discuss how parallel distributed processing (PDP) can help explain the word superiority effect. Be sure to describe PDP.
• Discuss how overactive top-down processing might hinder the ability to learn a new language.