Anaesthetic Learner Response Time Essay

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The aim of this report is to determine which learning group has a better response time with associating different letters that are of different orientations. This study found that kinaesthetic learners have a faster response time, and letters are more understood when upright than when disorientated. Most research found that there was a quicker response time on normal upright letters (Núñez-Peña & Aznar-Casanova, 2009); however, there was not a lot of research that found kinaesthetic learners to have a better response time, it is all about mental rotation. Studies would imagine visual learners to have a better response time like Fleming & Mills (1992) who stated that both tasks were visual, making it sensible to hypothesise that visual learners would have the faster response time, as they have to mentally rotate the image. …show more content…

This study was ideal in the sense that if recall was wrong the next letter would appear unlike in Thompson, Kosslyn, Hoffman & Van Der Kooij’s (2008) study; but something this study did unwell was discard any participant who had more than one learning style, which could have changed the results. Mayer & Massa (2003) found no significant sex differences in learning styles, this was something this study did not take into consideration as gender was not used for the results. A positive aspect of this study was having an equal amount of trials for each rotation, like Bigelow & McKenzie (1985), as it can help with getting a true result. Searle & Hamm (2012) found that the brain can get confused easily because there are letters like ‘J’ that face to the left, when most face to the right, so when rotated or mirrored, one could assume that the ‘J’ is normal when it is the complete opposite, which should be considered in the