TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental rotation and the perspective problem
AU - Huttenlocher, Janellen
AU - Presson, Clark C.
N1 - Funding Information:
’ The preparation of this paper was supported Award 5-K-HD-21,979, and in part by Research National Institutes of Health to the senior author. ‘The authors thank Carol Milligan for her help and Mr. De1 Eberhardt of the Greenwich, CT public the Greenwich County Day School for their help subjects we used in these experiments.
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PY - 1973/3
Y1 - 1973/3
N2 - Experiment I contrasts the difficulty of problems in which a child must anticipate the appearance of an array of objects that is rotated (rotation problems) to the difficulty of problems in which a child must anticipate the appearance of a fixed array to an observer who has been rotated with respect to it (perspective problems). Perspective problems are much more difficult and show a different error pattern. Experiment II contrasts standard perspective problems, in which a child must anticipate the appearance of the array to an observer whose position differs from his own, to "perspective-move" problems, in which a child must anticipate the appearance of the array from his own new position; i.e., he himself moves. The latter problems are much easier, and the error pattern is much like that for rotation problems. The mental operations involved in solving these various types of problems are discussed.
AB - Experiment I contrasts the difficulty of problems in which a child must anticipate the appearance of an array of objects that is rotated (rotation problems) to the difficulty of problems in which a child must anticipate the appearance of a fixed array to an observer who has been rotated with respect to it (perspective problems). Perspective problems are much more difficult and show a different error pattern. Experiment II contrasts standard perspective problems, in which a child must anticipate the appearance of the array to an observer whose position differs from his own, to "perspective-move" problems, in which a child must anticipate the appearance of the array from his own new position; i.e., he himself moves. The latter problems are much easier, and the error pattern is much like that for rotation problems. The mental operations involved in solving these various types of problems are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0010-0285(73)90015-7
DO - 10.1016/0010-0285(73)90015-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:49549165854
SN - 0010-0285
VL - 4
SP - 277
EP - 299
JO - Cognitive Psychology
JF - Cognitive Psychology
IS - 2
ER -