Blar i forfatter Hovedoppgaver til cand.psychol.graden "Kristiansen, Kari-Ann"
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Expectations and mental rotation : different effects on gender explored through the (unlikely) case of female superiority in mental rotation rate of large objects
Kristiansen, Kari-Ann (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-06-04)The present study aims to examine the relationship between expectation about performance in a mental rotation task of 3-D geometrical shapes on a small (standard) and large (novel) display and for each sex. In Experiment 1 we explicitly induced expectations about whether participants would perform better on either the large or small displays. Results revealed that women mentally rotate the 3-D ...