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Week 3 Class Experiment: Mental origami

Introduction to this week's class experiment.
Actual Origami example
The class experiment has been designed as an on-line experiment.

The experiment has been configured as a reaction time task. As in our rotating Rs task, as soon as a stimulus is presented, we begin to time and when stop timing when the participant makes a response. We are timing the elapsed time between stimulus presentation and response. We take it that such time intervals directly reflect how long the internal mental processes take to run to completion.

The task itself should not take more than 15 minutes to complete. We encourage you to complete the task, but you can also disseminate the link to other willing volunteers.

Instructions

You may either follow this link to launch the experiment

Link to Week 3 Class Experiment

or simply copy this link

http://bit.ly/2PiWCU2

into a new tab on a browser.

The task should be self-explanatory and the anonymous data will be saved so that we can share the summaries as soon as we can!

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