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Visual versus Verbal Perception and Responses
Description
An experiment studying the interaction between visual versus perception and visual versus verbal responses.
Usage
vizverb
Format
A data frame with 80 observations on the following 5 variables.
- subject
Subject identifying number (
s1tos20)- task
Describe a diagram (
visual) or a sentence (verbal)- response
Point response (
visual) or say response (verbal)- time
Response time (in seconds)
Details
Subjects carried out two kinds of tasks. One task was visual (describing a diagram), and the other was classed as verbal (reading and describing a sentence sentences). They reported the results either by pointing (a "visual" response), or speaking (a verbal response). Time to complete each task was recorded in seconds.
Source
This data set was taken from the
Stats2Data
R package. From the description in that package, the original data appear
to have been collected in a Mount Holyoke College psychology class based
replication of an experiment by Brooks, L., R. (1968) "Spatial and verbal
components of the act of recall," Canadian J. Psych. V 22, pp. 349 - 368.