Student’s Name: Sara Zaher
Student Number: 217188442
Name of TA: Nathaniel Andrews
Lab Day:
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Lab Time: 12:30
Pre-Assignment: Lab # 3
This assignment is to be answered prior to attending the lab.
1.
What is the purpose of this lab?
The purpose of this lab is to understand measurement
of performance error. Learn about how in some goal-directed movements, the
performance measure of interest is accuracy with respect to the criterion.
2.
What task are subjects required to perform?
Each student is required to try to time a
2000 millisecond interval, by reacting to an external cue or a self-generated start cue
3.
How many types of error measurements will you be calculating for this lab?
4 types of
error measurements will be calculated
4.
What is the Dependent variable in this study?
Reaction Time
5.
What is the name of the lab in MotorLab?
Error Calculation
6.
What is the target time?
The target time is 2 sec
7.
How many data collection trials are performed per block?
10 data collection trials per
block
8.
What are the two types of start cues?
External Cue and Self-Generated Cue
9.
What type of statistical analysis will you be doing in this lab?
The T-test will be the
statistical analysis made during this lab
10. What is the other name for Total Error?
Root Mean Square Error
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