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: 0411823
• 负责人: Kim Kastens
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 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=0411823&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 Lamont-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., asked to 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 of instruction; (b) the relationship among spatial abilities, learning style, and performance on the outcrop task; and (c) strategies used by experts, low-performing novices, and high-performing novices in doing the outcrop task.

研究人员提议进行一系列研究，涉及人们如何想象和理解大规模地质结构，以及地球科学教师应该如何最好地教授这些结构。该项目将有助于空间认知的基础知识。研究人员将使用拉蒙特-多尔蒂校园建造的人工地质露头和校园的桌面建筑模型进行一系列行为实验。每个约一米宽的露头将共同形成一个真实规模（即数百米宽）的埋藏地质结构，例如盆地、对称向斜或不对称倾倒向斜。露头彼此之间是不可见的，因此参与者需要整合可见的内容来构建整个结构的心理图像。参与者将被引导参观露头，然后对其表现进行测试（例如，要求选择准确的结构模型）。他们还将接受空间能力和言语空间学习风格的标准测试。研究人员将检查（a）新手在没有指导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、低绩效新手和高绩效新手在执行露头任务时使用的策略。