Adult Perception of the Horizontal
- 1 October 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 19 (2) , 371-374
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1964.19.2.371
Abstract
The conceptualization of the horizontal was tested by having 128 university students draw the water surface on pictures of tilted glasses, as if the glasses were half-filled with water. Most Ss made errors of more than 5°, which suggests that adults have difficulty, much as children do, with the concept of horizontality as tested by this task.Keywords
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- The Effect of Observation on Children's Representation of the Spatial Orientation of a Water SurfaceThe Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1963