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Metfan725

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Your eyes are now moving across the page to read this question. However, they pause briefly to acquire information from this sentence. This pause is called
 
  a. a perceptual span.
  b. a regression movement.
  c. a fixation.
  d. focused attention.

Question 2

According to the research on saccadic eye movements,
 
  a. people reading English are likely to see more letters to the left side of the central letter, rather than to the right side.
  b. poor readers tend to make more regression movements than good readers do.
  c. good readers tend to wait longer during the fixation pauses than poor readers do.
  d. good readers are more likely than poor readers to stop on a white space between two words.



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frre432

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: c

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b




Metfan725

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


alexanderhamilton

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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