Describe Donders's experiments and explain how they propose to measure cognitive processes.
What will be an ideal response?
These experiments measured the time to make a simple key press and the time to make a cognitive decision and to make a simple key press. By subtracting out the time to make the key press from the time to make the decision and the key press, Donders proposed that the time difference is the time it took to make the cognitive decision.
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