Our previous studies of problem-solving strategies in verification tasks showed different response times for different problem types. This experiment studied the effects of manipulating sentence and picture information on response strategies of 20 upper-division college students. Spatial positioning of figures affected over-all decision times, and practice improved performance for negatively phrased descriptions.
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