Author Question: According to the discussion of saccadic eye movements during reading, a. the purpose of this kind ... (Read 44 times)

karateprodigy · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to the discussion of saccadic eye movements during reading,

a. the purpose of this kind of eye movement is to move the eye to a location where the acuity is especially high for the stimulus you wish to see.
b. the research requires the participants to introspect about the nature of their eye movements during reading.
c. the eye moves forward by a fixed, inflexible number of letters during each saccadic eye movement.
d. good readers are more likely than poor readers to make regression movements, so that they can integrate the new material with the old material.

Question 2

Chinese readers make saccadic eye movements when they are reading a book written in Chinese script. Compared to English readers, the Chinese readers

a. move their eyes only two to three characters in a saccade, because each Chinese character contains more information.
b. move their eyes a greater distance in a saccade, because each Chinese character provides less information.
c. move their eyes a greater distance in a saccade, because each Chinese character provides more grammatical information.
d. move their eyes a greater distance in a saccade, because English has so many irregularities in its spelling.