Are People with High and Low Mental Rotation Abilities Differently Susceptible to the Alignment Effect?
Are People with High and Low Mental Rotation Abilities Differently Susceptible to the Alignment Effect?
复制标题
心理旋转能力高和低的人对对齐效应的敏感度是否不同?
作者:
F. Pazzaglia;R. De Beni
We investigated whether the alignment effect (Levine et al, 1982 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 111 157–175) is influenced by mental rotation abilities. In two experiments, groups of undergraduate students with high and low performance in mental rotation tasks were required to study either schematic (experiment 1) or more complex (experiment 2) maps, and to perform a number of pointing tasks adopting a perspective which could be aligned, misaligned (45°, 135°), or counteraligned (180°) with the perspective assumed during learning. Cognitive styles in spatial representation have also been considered. Results of experiment 1 show that people with low performance in mental rotation tasks prefer to adopt a representation of space focused more on landmarks. Their performance in the pointing tasks depends on the alignment conditions, with more errors in the counteraligned condition followed by the two misaligned and aligned ones. In contrast to this, high-ability mental rotators prefer survey and route spatial representations and are affected only by the aligned and non-aligned conditions. In the second experiment, practice was studied as a function of mental rotation and alignment. The group high in mental rotation ability was found to be free from the alignment effect in the pointing tasks performed after the final of four learning phases.
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
LINN, MC;PETERSEN, AC
通讯作者:
PETERSEN, AC
DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.24.1.215
发表时间:
1998-01-01
影响因子:
2.6
作者:
Roskos-Ewoldsen, B;McNamara, TP;Carr, W
通讯作者:
Carr, W
DOI:
10.1037//0278-7393.15.5.887
发表时间:
1989
期刊:
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
影响因子:
--
作者:
Presson,CC;DeLange,N;Hazelrigg,MD
通讯作者:
Hazelrigg,MD