A participant who is shown only part of a word would most likely employ which of the following methods to guess the rest of the word?
A) The participant would allow recent experience with similar words to influence the choice.
B) The participant would rule out certain letters that would not combine with the word fragment to spell any recognizable word.
C) The participant would create a new category in visual memory for that word fragment.
D) Both a and b.

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The participant would allow recent experience with similar words to influence their choice (option A) and rule out certain letters that would not combine with the word fragment to spell any recognizable word (option B). Both of these methods would likely be employed in combination to guess the rest of the word. Option C is unlikely to be a strategy for guessing the rest of a word given just a word fragment.

A Participant Who Is Shown Only Part of a Word