A Researcher Shows a Group of Participants Letter Strings for a Brief

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A researcher shows a group of participants letter strings for a brief period of time (50 ms) and asks them to identify the letters that they saw. Based on previous research, describe the pattern of performance that is expected by answering the following questions:
a. Can participants do this task?
b. If they make mistakes, what sort of mistakes do they make?
c. What do these results tells us about object recognition?

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Definitions:

Behavioral Perspective

A way of looking at psychological issues by studying observable behavior and what determines it, without focusing on mental states.

Nature

refers to the physical world and its phenomena, including the landscape, plants, animals, and other features and products of the earth as opposed to humans or human creations.

Nurture

The influence of environmental factors and experiences on an individual's development and behavior.

Applied Research

A form of systematic inquiry involving the practical application of science. It accesses and uses some part of the research communities' (the academia's) accumulated theories, knowledge, methods, and techniques, for a specific, often state, business, or client driven purpose.