Question

Pollack and Pickett's experiment on understanding speech found that when participants were presented with individual words taken out of conversations (single words presented alone with no context), they could identify:________a) 100% of the words spoken by their own voices.b) 50% of the words spoken by their own voices.c) none of the words spoken by others.

Answer 1

Pollack and Pickett's found from their experiment on understanding speech that only 50% of the words spoken by their own voices could be identified by the participants.

Explanation:

• The experiment carried out by Pollack and Pickett was intended at determining whether or not people recognize and understand the words and syllables spoken by their own selves when the words are presented to them separately one word at a time.
• The experiment was inspired by the fact that humans often perceive their own voice in a different way than how it actually is.