Visual Perspective Taking in Children: Further Ramifications of an Information-Processing Model |
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Authors: | Rosemary A. Rosser Sally Stevens Ensing John Mazzeo Patricia F. Horan |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Educational Psychology , University of Arizona , USA;2. Department of Psychology , North Carolina State University , USA |
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Abstract: | Forty children between ages 6 and 8 were administered a set of spatial perspective tasks. On half of the items, children responded by rotating a duplicate of the target display; on the remainder, children reconstructed the displays to correspond to a perspective view. The displays differed as to whether they contained marked or unmarked objects. On the basis of an information-processing analysis of these tasks, we predicted that the response-type variables and stimulus variables would interact in known ways. Analysis of variance results revealed a good fit with the hypothesized outcomes. Main effects were detected for age, which favored older children, and for display, which favored unmarked objects; the rotation task proved easier. Significant interactions revealed that task demands increasing task difficulty were more problematic in the construction task than in the rotation task, as predicted. |
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