Three - Dimensional Representations of Contour Maps  

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Lanca, Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Contemporary Educational Psychology vol. 23 no. 01 (Jan. 1998), page 22-41.
Topik: dimensional variation; gender differences; contour map; dimensional; representations

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C15 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Contour map learning may require three dimensional representation of the area depicted by a contour map. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that participants created three dimensional mental representations of contour maps when asked to generate a cross section profile of the map terrain from one point on the contour map to another. Participants studied a series of contour maps or landsurface maps (three dimensional drawings of an area), and answered two cross section questions per map. Following the cross section test, participants were given an incidental recognition test for the previously studied maps, either in a contour map format or a landsurface map format. Males recognized the landsurface maps corresponding to the contour map cross-section questions answered correctly better than contour map cross section questions answered incorrectly, whereas females did not. This finding suggested that males, but not females, formed threedimensional representations of the contour maps. There were no gender differences in performance on the contour map crosssection test, but males achieved higher recognition scores than females when the cross section stimuli were contour maps. It was concluded that multiple spatial and verbal processing strategies can be used successfully to solve a contour map cross section test, but that three dimensional spatial processing may be more efficient than other forms of processing for longterm memory of contour maps.

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