Question

How does your reaction time to the voluntary action of your quadriceps in activity 2.2.3 compare with your reaction time to the simple reaction task in this project? the task in the previous lab involved hearing a sound and reacting with your foot. the task in this lab involved seeing a signal and reacting with your finger. what do reaction times tell you about how these signals are processed?

Answer 1

Here is the answer of the given question above. The simple task was easier because you didn’t need to think and process the sound; all you had to do was look at the simple image of the box and click the button.Faster reaction time often means that the task was simpler. Hope this answer helps. 

Answer 2

Answer : Reaction time is usually a measure of the quickness an organism response to some sort of external stimulus. Reflexes and reactions, which may appear to be similar, are quite different. Reflexes are observed to be involuntary, which is used to protect the body, and are faster than a reaction.

So, in this case, when the easy simple task was given brain required less time to respond to those questions as the response time didn't included interpretation of the sound. Faster reaction response time are mostly seen in easy tasks which does not includes complex thinking by the brain.