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Temur, Turan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
This study aimed to examine how first grade students in primary education held and gripped a pencil and their compressive strength using a descriptive research method. The participants of the research comprises first grade students attending a private school in the city center of Ankara (n=79). All of the four different sections in this private…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Males
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Girardi, Giovanna; Lindemann, Oliver; Bekkering, Harold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
In 4 experiments, we investigated the effects of object affordance in reach-to-grasp actions. Participants indicated whether a depicted small or large object was natural or manmade by means of different object-grasping responses (i.e., with a power or a precision grip). We observed that the size of the depicted object affected the grasping…
Descriptors: Observation, Experiments, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes