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

question 69

Essay

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 at all?
b.With what sorts of letter strings will their performance be worst?
c.If they make mistakes,what sort of mistakes do they make?
d.What do these results tells us about object recognition?

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