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Memory effects in visual spatial information processing
Author(s) -
Fishbein Harold D.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1978.tb01664.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognitive psychology , perception , test (biology) , information processing , spatial ability , visual perception , spatial analysis , memory test , cognition , statistics , neuroscience , paleontology , mathematics , biology
Eight, ten and twelve year old children were tested on a novel procedure involving the successive presentation of the standard and comparison stimuli. Two hypotheses were evaluated, one dealing with memory effects, and the other with children's pre‐testing of choice responses in spatial information processing. It was found, in general, for both spatial perception and coordination of perspectives tasks, that there was no short memory decay for spatial information, but that opportunities to pre‐test choice responses improved performance. It was inferred from these data that the performance superiority under simultaneous than successive conditions is attributable to opportunities to pre‐test responses and not to memory effects, as opposed to successive conditions is attributable to opportunities to pre‐test responses and not to memory effects.