Sikkenga, A. (Arjen) (2012) Perceiving action boundaries for self and other: developmentof action-scaling skills in six- to twelve-year old children in a horizontal jumping-task. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
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Abstract
Although previous research has shown that humans can perceive affordances for themselves and others with a high degree of accuracy, the study of this capacity in children has received scant attention. Therefore, this study examined the development of affordance perception for self and other in children in a horizontal jumping-task. Overall, the children were fairly accurate but showed a general tendency to underestimate both their own action capabilities and those of others. While no developmental differences were found in the self-condition, the results showed that accuracy increased with·age in the other-condition. Furthermore, the boys were significantly more accurate in the other-condition than in the self-condition, as well as more accurate than the girls in the other-condition, whilst no gender differences were found in the self-condition. Although the authors discussed some possible explanations for these results, further research is warranted to fully understand the development of action-scaling skills during middle childhood years.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Supervisors: and Withagen, Rob and Button, Chris |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2020 10:48 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2020 10:48 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/928 |
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