Mental rotation and mental folding in 7- and 8-year-old children

Mielessä kääntäminen ja mielessä taittelu ovat avaruudellisten representaatioiden mielessä muuntamista. Mielessä kääntäminen muuttaa objektin suunnan, kun taas mielessä taittelussa täytyy kuvitella, miltä objekti näyttää taittamisen jälkeen. Taitoja on tutkittu paljon, mutta silti ei ole varmuutta,...

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Main Author: Ilen, Laura
Other Authors: Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Social Sciences, Psykologian laitos, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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description Mielessä kääntäminen ja mielessä taittelu ovat avaruudellisten representaatioiden mielessä muuntamista. Mielessä kääntäminen muuttaa objektin suunnan, kun taas mielessä taittelussa täytyy kuvitella, miltä objekti näyttää taittamisen jälkeen. Taitoja on tutkittu paljon, mutta silti ei ole varmuutta, ovatko ne samanlaisia vai erilaisia prosesseja. Aiemmat tutkimukset ovat löytäneet yhteyden mielessä kääntämisen ja matematiikan taitojen välille, mutta mielessä taittelun yhteyttä matematiikkaan ei ole osoitettu. Kuitenkin, suurin osa tutkimuksesta on tehty aikuisilla, joten lasten mielessä muuntamisen taitoja ei ole tutkittu yhtä laajasti. Tässä tutkimuksessa tavoitteena oli tutkia mielessä kääntämisen ja mielessä taittelun prosesseja 7- ja 8-vuotiailla lapsilla, ja selvittää, voivatko prosessit ennustaa matematiikassa suoriutumista. Tutkimukseen osallistui 118 lasta Jyväskylän Normaalikoulun ensimmäiseltä ja toiselta luokalta. Tutkimuksessa käytettiin uutta tietokonetestistöä testaamaan lasten mielessä kääntämisen ja mielessä taittelun taitoja sekä kynä-paperitestejä selvittämään lukemista, matematiikkaa ja visuospatiaalisia taitoja. Tulokset osoittivat, että mielessä kääntämisen ja mielessä taittelun tehtävät korreloivat keskenään, mutta prosessit eivät voi olla täysin samanlaisia, sillä korrelaatiot kynä-paperitesteihin erosivat. Vain mielessä kääntäminen oli yhteydessä matematiikkaan, mutta se ennusti matematiikan tuloksia heikosti. Lisäksi, sukupuolieroja esiintyi vain mielessä taittelun tehtävässä, jossa tytöt suoriutuivat poikia paremmin. Kuitenkin, tulokset osoittavat, että suurin osa tämän ikäisistä lapsista ei kääntänyt kuvia mielessään. Koska joidenkin tehtävien reliabiliteetit olivat melko matalia, joitakin muutoksia seuraavaan testiversioon on tehtävä, jotta saataisiin luotettavampia tuloksia mielessä muuntamisen prosesseista tässä iässä. Mental rotation and mental folding are mental transformations of spatial representations. Mental rotation changes the orientation of an object, whereas mental folding requires picturing how an object will look like after it has been folded. The skills have been studied a lot but still it is not sure if they are similar or different processes. Earlier research has found a connection between mental rotation and mathematical skills but a relation between mathematics and mental folding has not been proved. However, most of the research has been done with adult participants, so the mental transformations in children have not been studied as much. The goal of the present study was to examine the mental transformation processes in 7- and 8-year-old children, and to test whether the processes can predict the performance in mathematics. The participants were 118 children from the first and second grades of the University of Jyväskylä Teacher Training School. We used new computer-based tests to test the mental rotation and mental folding skills, and paper-and-pencil tests to measure reading, mathematics and visuospatial skills. The results showed that the mental rotation and mental folding tasks correlated with each other, but they cannot be completely similar processes since the correlations with paper-and-pencil tests differed. In addition, only mental rotation had a connection with mathematical skills, although it predicted math scores weakly. Furthermore, only mental folding showed gender differences: girls had better scores in mental folding task than boys. However, the results showed that most of the children at this age did not mentally rotate images. As some of the task reliabilities were quite low, some improvements to the next test version are needed to get more reliable results of the mental transformation processes at this age.
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title_full Mental rotation and mental folding in 7- and 8-year-old children
title_fullStr Mental rotation and mental folding in 7- and 8-year-old children Mental rotation and mental folding in 7- and 8-year-old children
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title_short Mental rotation and mental folding in 7- and 8-year-old children
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