Miller and isard presented listeners with grammatical sentences ("gadgets simplify work around the house"); ungrammatical word strings ("between gadgets highways passengers the steal"), and anomalous sentences ("gadgets kill passengers from the eyes"). the results showed that the listener's ability to accurately report the phrase was

Miller and Isard experiment showed that listener's ability to accurately report the phrase was the highest for the grammatical sentences, then for  anomalous sentences and the lowest for the ungrammatical word strings.

Explanation:

This experiment showed that the human brain remembers linguistically well structured groups of words better even though they do not make sense. Though it would be expected that people would rather remember a piece of information that makes sense, they prove to be receptive to the structure of the sentence on higher scale.

answer; decipher the motives for why people behave the way they do;

answer; soren kieregaard was a 19th century danish philosopher;