Question

A visual discrimination task with the touchscreen gives researchers a lot more control over the manipulation of the task compared to the smell discrimination task. For example researchers can easily alter the difficulty of the visual discrimination by adjusting the contrast of the images, or by changing the stimulus duration.

Based on the information above picking the visual discrimination task rather than the smell discrimination would be consistent with the scientists focusing on what type of experimental mode.

Group of answer choices

Generalization mode

Theory testing mode

Answer 1

Theory testing mode

This is so as in theory testing mode the researchers claim to understand the casual relationship or the phenomenon behind the event through a series of tasks to investigate support for the theory which may includes manipulations for testing different effects on the variables taken.