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MaxE
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03 Jul 2015, 9:47 am

A couple of days ago I attended AED (defibrillator) training.

So at one point the instructor, while facing the class, told us to "hold your right hand over your upper right chest" simultaneously holding his left hand over his upper left chest.

The visual input paired with the verbal instructions confused me such that I ended up putting my right hand over my upper left chest, then I thought it through and corrected myself.

Would a neurotypical person have not been confused by this or is this just a bad way to instruct? I am assuming, perhaps wrongly, that the instructor was trained to present the material in this way.


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05 Jul 2015, 12:11 am

He said one thing and did another, without warning he was using the mirror image as a model. I imagine the audience would've been confused, unless they all followed the verbal instruction only.


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