Klunder, H. (Hanne) (2016) Perceived crossing capabilities in children: The effect of exploratory movement and experience on the perceived action capabilities in a crossing task. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
There has been research on the role of movement and experience on perceived action capabilities, indicating that exploratory movement and experience improve the perception of action capabilities. However, only a small number of these studies focussed on the typically developed children. Twenty-one children (age 7-12 years) judged their perceived action capabilities in a gap crossing task. A set-up was designed with different crossing distances, ranging from 60 cm to 220 cm. To examine the role of exploratory movement on perceived action capabilities the research question was as follows: Does the accuracy of the perceived action capabilities improve when allowing children to have more exploratory movement; standing (no exploratory movement), moving (limited exploratory movement) and crossing (all movement? Results showed that in the standing and the moving condition the participants judged consistently lower (underestimating) than in the crossing condition. To examine the role of transfer after the research question was as follows: Are children capable of transferring knowledge of their action capabilities from experience (an action first group VS. a perception first) with the task to judging their perceived action capabilities of the task, and how does this influences their perceived action capabilities? The action first group showed higher accuracy compared to the perception first group, indicating there is an effect of experience on the perceived action capabilities. Concluding, full exploratory movement and experience improve the perceived action capabilities. Keywords: Children, affordances, perceived action capabilities, gap-crossing, experience, exploratory movement
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Smith, dr. J. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2022 12:14 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2022 12:14 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3158 |
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