The Development of a Practical Measure of Environmental-Scale Spatial Ability: the Spatial Configuration Task
| atmire.migration.oldid | 1892 | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Iaria, Giuseppe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Burles, Clayton Ford | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-29T21:30:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-15T07:00:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-01-29 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The ability to orient and navigate throughout an environment is a fundamental yet complex cognitive skill. This ability may be valuable in certain academic fields (Hegarty, Crookes, Dara-Abrams, & Shipley, 2010) and military occupations (Shanmugaratnam & Parush, 2012), and an assessment of these environmental-scale spatial skills for use in selection or training would be valuable. With this in mind, a new task (the Spatial Configuration Task) was developed and it’s suitability for group testing environmental-scale spatial skills was assessed. The Spatial Configuration Task was demonstrated to be reliable (test-retest reliability r = .814), valid (significantly correlated with the Cognitive Map Formation and Use Tasks; r =-.414, r = .339 respectively), and practical (average duration of 9.69 minutes). This task may have useful applications in selection as well as research, as there are few standardized measures of environmental-scale spatial ability suitable for mass testing. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Burles, C. F. (2014). The Development of a Practical Measure of Environmental-Scale Spatial Ability: the Spatial Configuration Task (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28057 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28057 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1321 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Psychology--Cognitive | |
| dc.subject | Psychology--Experimental | |
| dc.subject | Psychometrics | |
| dc.title | The Development of a Practical Measure of Environmental-Scale Spatial Ability: the Spatial Configuration Task | |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science (MSc) | |
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