In the classic study on mental rotation, what did Shepard and Metzler find was the relationship between the speed that participants made judgments on whether two shapes were the same or different, and the degree of rotation?
A)Degree of rotation did not affect participants' response time
B)The relationship between degree of rotation and response time was curvilinear
C)The greater the degree of rotation, the longer it took participants to respond
D)The greater the degree of rotation, the slower participants took to respond

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Shepard and Metzler found that the time it took participants to decide if two shapes were the same increased linearly with the degree of rotation between the shapes.

In the Classic Study on Mental Rotation, What Did Shepard