Does the Direction in Which a Figure Is Looking Influence Whether It Is Visible?

Autor/in	McGuigan, Nicola
Titel	Does the Direction in Which a Figure Is Looking Influence Whether It Is Visible?
Quelle	In: Journal of Genetic Psychology, 170 (2009) 3, S.227-233 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1325
Schlagwörter	Visual Perception; Preschool Children; Attention; Orientation; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Aufmerksamkeit; Orientierung; Ausland
Abstract	Previous studies have shown that young preschool children are highly sensitive to mutual engagement and struggle to diagnose the visibility of a figure when their facial area is occluded. The present study aimed to explore the specificity of engagement by varying (a) the orientation of a figure relative to an observer and (b) the visible area of the figure's body. Results indicated that young children are sensitive to the orientation of the figure and the presence of a salient barrier over the figure's eyes. These results paint a more complex picture of the development of percept diagnosis skills than those that J. H. Flavell, S. G. Shipstead, & K. Croft (1980) outlined. (Contains 1 table and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10