Are you sure the library is that way? Metacognitive monitoring of spatial judgments
- Author:
- Stevens, Christopher
- Published:
- [University Park, Pennsylvania] : Pennsylvania State University, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Carlson, Rich
- Access Online:
- etda.libraries.psu.edu
- Restrictions on Access:
- Open Access.
- Summary:
- No studies to date have examined the factors that affect confidence in judgments of spatial direction. The central aims of this dissertation were to determine the relationship between confidence and accuracy of spatial judgments and the factors that influence this relationship. Participants pointed to imagined targets and rated their confidence in the accuracy of their pointing judgments. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants imagined themselves pointing to buildings on Penn State's campus. In Experiment 3, participants imagined pointing to targets within a novel campus that they learned from a map. In general, participants showed poor sensitivity to factors that influenced the accuracy of their spatial judgments.
- Dissertation Note:
- Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2014.
- Reproduction Note:
- Microfilm (positive). 1 reel ; 35 mm. (University Microfilms 36-47515)
- Technical Details:
- The full text of the dissertation is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file.
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