Visual versus Verbal Performance

Description

Experiment to compare visual and verbal performance

Format

A data frame with 80 observations on the following 5 variables.

Subject

Subject number (s1 to s20)

Task

Follow a letter (Visual) or a sentence (Verbal)

Report

Point response (Visual) or say response (Verbal)

Group

Combination of Task+Report (Letter Point, Letter Say, Sentence Point, or Sentence Say)

Time

Response time (in seconds)

Details

Subjects carried out two kinds of tasks, one visual (identify letters), one verbal (identify sentences); and to report the results in either of two ways, one visual (pointing at a response), one verbal (speaking a response). Time to complete each task was recorded in seconds.

Source

Original experiment from Brooks, L., R. (1968) "Spatial and verbal components of the act of recall," Canadian J. Psych. V 22, pp. 349 - 368. These data collected from a Mount Holyoke College psychology class.