Perception of Horizontality by Male and Female College Students
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 44 (3) , 724-726
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1977.44.3.724
Abstract
Understanding of the principle of horizontality was tested by having 314 university students draw the water surface on pictures of tilted bottles. Adults appear to have difficulty with this task and females performed much more poorly than males.Keywords
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