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Disjunctive reaction time as it relates to complexity level

that as the level of complexity increase so do reaction time. An analysis using ANOVA supported this observation, F (2,18) = 5.98, p * .014 as seen in Figure 1. An analysis using t test revealed (M = 461.50) for the first 36 and the (M=408.89) for last 36 trails, t (9) = 0.718 p = .497 for 1 choice, was not significantly different. The (M=569.59) for the first 36 trails and the (M = 554.84) for last 36 trails, t (9) .560 p = 594 for 2 choice, was not significantly different. The (M=597.366) for first 36 trail and the (M =554.84) the last 36 trails, t (9) 1.092 p =. 304 there were no significant findings, suggesting no practice effects seen in table 1.DiscussionAlthough t test did not provide any significant results, the inference can be made that practice effects may have occurred because the means of the first 36 trails were shorter than those of the last 36 trials. Also the inference of fatigue or boredom may be a reasons that the t test were not significant. Postaman and Eagan (1949) propose that the subjects has an concentrated attention on the stimulus,(p. 255) if the subject becomes bored or fatigue with repeatedly doing the same task practice effect result may not occur. Another reason that practice effects result did not occur may have been the sample size and number of trials. With Rikli and Busch (1989) the sample size was 60 adult females, compared to 10 randomly chosen adults for this study. The number of trails for the Rikli and Busch (1989) study was 10, where that last 8 trails were used to determine the mean scores for the analysis, this procedure has a reliability of .87. This study also used the last trials to determine variance however, fatigue or boredom may have set in by the last 36 trails of 144 trails.However, there were increases in reaction time when the complexity level increase, similar to the results in Baron and Journey (1989). Rikli and Bucsh (1986) compared the means of the simple reaction ...

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