Reaction time of simple categorization of subclasses of functions

Abstract

In last decades, there is a tendency to use general psychological mathods of research in mathematics education. In our contribution we present mostly quantitative results of our first study focused on measuring of reaction time and accuracy of respondents in specially developed task - categorization of mathematical objects, specifically one subclass of class of functions.

Particular hypotheses and interpretations of process of decision in this task, based on statistical analysis, are proposed.

Keywords

• categorization
• reaction time
• mathematical objects
• mathematics education
• quantitative result