Ball and Sekular (1982) trained people to detect very small movements by exposing them to unidirectional movement. They found that their subjects
A) did not learn this task very well.
B) did very well in detecting movement in the direction in which they were trained.
C) were better at detecting larger movements than smaller movements.
D) did very well in detecting movement in any direction.
E) did very well in detecting movement opposite to the direction in which they were trained.

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Ball and Sekular (1982) found that subjects trained to detect unidirectional movement improved significantly in detecting movement in the specific direction they were trained on, indicating that the training was effective for that particular direction.

Ball and Sekular (1982) Trained People to Detect Very Small