Shepard and Meltzer measured the time it took for participants to decide whether two objects were the same (two different views of the same object) or different (two different objects). These researchers inferred cognitive processes by using
a. image scanning.
b. mental chronometry.
c. epiphenomena.
d. propositional representations.
b
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