How to test your reaction time

For this week's experiment, we are going to take a test. This is not a test that you study for. Instead, Robert Krampf will test your reaction time. Imagine that you are drinking a glass of water. You take a swallow, and then you place the glass on the table. If someone bumps the table and the glass begins to tip, you would try to catch it before it spilled. There is a very small time between the point that you see the glass falling and when your hand starts to move to the glass. This is the time that it takes for your brain to recognize what is happening and send a message to tell your hand to move. That is reaction time.