The Relation between Sense of Direction and Mental Geographic Updating.

Sholl, M. Jeanne

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Relation between Sense of Direction and Mental Geographic Updating.

Sholl, M. Jeanne

Intelligence, v12 n3 p299-314 Jul-Sep 1988

Two studies with 28 Boston College undergraduates tested the hypothesis that people who report a poor sense of direction (SOD) have an impaired ability to use spatial information in an abstract or symbolic way. The hypothesis was not supported. Poor SOD correlates to a mental egocentrism in self-to-environmental-object relations. (TJH)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Egocentrism, Higher Education, Orientation, Spatial Ability, Symbolic Learning

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