Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1974

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

Rock's procedure for separating the effect of objective and retinal spatial reference by varying stimulus orientation and body posture was used in conjunction with the "same-different" reaction time paradigm. It was predicted that the individual differences in perceptual processing (analytic and structural) obtained by Hock (1973) would involve different determinants of spatial reference, these being retinal reference for analytic processing and objective reference for structural processing. The results show that analytic subjects as hypothesized, referenced perceptual information to a retinal coordinate system. Structural subjects however, seemed to reference perceptual information to both objective and retinal coordinates. The results for structural subjects were attributed to the unexpected finding that subjects who were structural while upright, became analytic when in a reclining position. The latter finding suggested that Rock's methodology for separating the effects of retinal and objective orientation relies on the subjects employing the same mode of processing in all bodily postures.

Extent

45 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.

Identifier

FADT13649

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