Participants in the Meyer and Schvaneveldt study were faster at making judgments about negative word pairs,such as:
A) nurse and butter.
B) bread and butter.
C) plame and wine.
D) wine and plame.

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Participants were faster at making judgments about non-words or unrelated word pairs, like "plame and wine," because they don't have a semantic relationship, making it easier to quickly determine they are not related.

Participants in the Meyer and Schvaneveldt Study Were Faster at Making