Hierarchy of Cues and Verbal Feedback

In general, during a confrontational naming task, cues are as follows:

1. Extra time (about 15 seconds)
   
2. Function, location, property cues (i.e. semantic feature analysis)
   
3. Cloze condition cueing such as "You sleep in a _________."
4. Initial letter cue or
   
5. Phonemic cue

Verbal feedback should consist of:

"That's right." or "That's correct."
"That's wrong." or "That's not correct."

Additionally, verbal feedback can provide the person with information about what he or she is doing correctly, such as: "That's right. You allowed yourself extra time to think before you answered."

Or, conversely, what he or she is doing incorrectly, as in: "That's not correct. Try to wait before you answer. Give yourself extra time to find the word."