PERCEIVING AFFORDANCES - VISUAL GUIDANCE OF STAIR CLIMBING
PERCEIVING AFFORDANCES - VISUAL GUIDANCE OF STAIR CLIMBING
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-1523.10.5.683
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
WARREN, WH
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作者:
WARREN, WH
Three experiments investigated" affordances" in visual guidance of stair climbing with 54 male college students. An affordance was defined as the functional utility of an object for an animal with certain action capabilities. Exp I tested the hypothesis that the perceptual category boundary between climbable and unclimbable risers corresponds to critical riser height. 24 Ss were divided into a short group (mean height 5 ft 4.4 in) and a tall group (mean height 6 ft 2.7 in). The results demonstrate that both groups judged stairways as unclimbable at a riser height in proportion to their leg lengths. Exp II, conducted with 6 male college students, empirically determined the optimal riser height by measuring energy expenditure during climbing. Results indicate that the riser height requiring minimum energy expenditure was just over one-fourth of leg length for both short (mean height 5 ft 3.2 in) and tall (mean height 6 ft 4.3 in) climbers. Exp III, conducted with 24 Ss, tested the hypothesis that perceptual preference for riser height would correspond to the optimal riser height obtained in Exp II. It is concluded that perception for the control of action reflects the underlying dynamics of the animal–environment system.(90 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)