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Waller, David Alan.

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An assessment of individual differences in spatial knowledge of real and virtual environments.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An assessment of individual differences in spatial knowledge of real and virtual environments./
Author:	Waller, David Alan.
Description:	220 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: B, page: 1882.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04B.
Subject:	Psychology, Psychometrics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9924139
ISBN:	9780599237094

An assessment of individual differences in spatial knowledge of real and virtual environments.
Waller, David Alan.

An assessment of individual differences in spatial knowledge of real and virtual environments. - 220 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: B, page: 1882.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1999.

There is enormous variation between individuals in a variety of spatial behaviors, and it is a challenge to identify the sources of this variation. Methods of measuring large-scale environmental knowledge are discussed, and several variations on traditional measures are explored. Methods based on map construction and pointing tasks are found to be the best discriminators between route and survey-based mental representations of the environment. Real-time interactive computer graphics also offer promise for assessing and training environmental knowledge. A new computer-based instrument is found to have moderate predictive validity for the ability to point to unseen locations in a familiar large-scale real-world environment. A correlational study is reported in which the relationships between the following variables are explored: smallscale pscyhometrically assessed spatial ability, real-world representational and navigational ability, gender, imaging strategy, computer use and experience, the ability to acquire and transfer spatial knowledge from a virtual environment, and proficiency with the navigational interface of the virtual environment. Consistent with other studies, the relationship between spatial ability and real-world environmental knowledge is found to be very weak. However, spatial ability is significantly associated with spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual environment. Proficiency with the navigational interface and spatial ability are found to make a substantial contribution to individual differences in the ability to acquire spatial information from a virtual environment. Gender is also influential on many tasks, but primarily through its relationship with interface proficiency and spatial ability.

ISBN: 9780599237094Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017742
Psychology, Psychometrics.

An assessment of individual differences in spatial knowledge of real and virtual environments.
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