In Donders's experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press one button if the light on the left was illuminated and another button if the light on the right was illuminated, they were engaged in a
A. memory recall task.
B. simple reaction time task.
C. choice reaction time task.
D. operant conditioning task.
Answer: C
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