Collaborative Research: Constructing Mental Images of Geologic Structures from Field Observations

合作研究：通过实地观察构建地质结构的心理图像

• 批准号: 0411686
• 负责人: Lynn Liben
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0411686&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Constructing; Mental; Images

The investigators propose to conduct a series of studies concerning how it is that people visualize and comprehend large-scale geologic structures and how it is that instructors in Geoscience ought best to teach about them. This project will contribute to basic knowledge of spatial cognition. The investigators will conduct a series of behavioral experiments, using artificial geologic outcrops constructed on the La11:lont-Doherty campus and using tabletop architectural models of the campus. The outcrops, each about a meter across, would together form a buried geologic structure, such as a basin, a symmetric syncline, or an asymmetric plunging syncline, at a realistic scale (i.e;,hundreds of meters across). The outcrops will not be visible from each other, so the participants will need to integrate what can be seen to construct a mental image of the entire structure. !Participants will be guided around the outcrops and then be tested on their representations (e.g., askedtb choose accurate models of the structure). They will also take standard tests of spatial ability and verbal-spatial.learning style. The investigators will examine (a) the development of skill on the outcrop task among novices through practice and repetition in the absence ofinst~ction; (b) the relationship among spatial abilities, learning style, and performance on the outcrop task; and (c) strategies used by experts, low-performing noyices,and high-performing novices in doing the outcrop task.

研究人员建议进行一系列的研究，研究人们如何想象和理解大规模的地质结构，以及地球科学教师应该如何最好地教授它们。这个项目将有助于空间认知的基础知识。研究人员将进行一系列的行为实验，使用在La 11：lont-Doherty校园建造的人工地质露头，并使用校园的桌面建筑模型。这些露头，每一个大约一米宽，将共同形成一个埋藏的地质结构，如盆地，对称向斜，或不对称的倾伏向斜，在一个现实的比例（即，数百米宽）。露头彼此不可见，因此参与者需要整合所看到的内容来构建整个结构的心理图像。!参加者将被引导参观露头，然后对他们的表现进行测试（例如，askedTB选择结构的精确模型）。他们还将参加空间能力和语言空间学习风格的标准测试。研究者将考察：（a）新手在缺乏初始训练的情况下通过练习和重复进行露头任务的技能发展;（B）空间能力、学习风格和露头任务表现之间的关系;（c）专家、低表现新手和高表现新手在完成露头任务时使用的策略。