In the early reaction time research, reaction times for seemingly complex events were occasionally equal to the reaction times for simpler events. How could this have happened?
A)the simple additive model was inadequate
B)the equipment must have malfunctioned
C)the complex event was really much simpler
D)the experimenters did not have sufficient training

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The simple additive model was inadequate because it did not take into account the fact that the complex event was actually a series of simpler events that were processed in parallel.

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