Decompositional

To begin with, Reynolds’ decompositional strategy invoking sub-skills such as various visual recognitional capacities (as in Marr’s theory of vision) seems to be an appeal to the so-called ‘unconscious’ processes that lead up to experience and eventually to belief.

The Manelis and Tharp ( 1977 ) investigation failed to find a difference between affixed and nonaffixed words in either direction, a result that favored the independent entries hypothesis over either version of the decompositional hypothesis.