Subjects can better discriminate between two letters when the letters are embedded in words than when the letters stand alone.This effect is called the _____ effect.
A) phoneme-restoration
B) stimulus-driven
C) word superiority
D) phoneme-segmentation

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The effect described in the question is the word superiority effect, where reading words is easier and more accurate than reading individual letters. This is likely due to the contextual information provided by the surrounding letters in a word. The other options (A, B, and D) describe different phenomena related to speech or stimulus processing, but not specifically related to the processing of written language.

Subjects Can Better Discriminate Between Two Letters When the Letters