Experiments Performed by Symes Et Al

question 53

Multiple Choice

Experiments performed by Symes et al. (2008) showed that, when participants had to pinch a button instead of grasping a lever on identifying a difference in a visual display, they were:

• A) always faster at pinching the button, no matter what the change in the display was.
• B) faster at detecting the difference between small items in the display.
• C) faster at detecting the difference between large items in the display.
• D) always slower at pinching the button, no matter what the change in the display was.

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