The Role of the Physical Environment and Size of Objects in Length Estimation

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Research 01 Jan 2022Embargo end date: 09 May 2022 Spain, Belgium English Publisher:DIGITAL.CSIC

Authors: Giakoumi, Maria; Verschaffel, Lieven; Luwel, Koen;

doi: 10.20350/digitalcsic/15195

handle: 10261/268960

The Role of the Physical Environment and Size of Objects in Length Estimation

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The present study investigated the effect of the physical estimation environment and the size of the to-be-estimated (TBE) objects on the use of measurement units and length estimation performance. Following a between-subjects design, forty young adults were asked to estimate the length of nine pieces of ribbon presented in two different conditions: an External Measurement condition, wherein several external measurement units were present or a No External Measurement condition in which such external measurement units were absent. The results indicated that the availability of external measurement units affected the type of measurement units that were applied as well as their frequency of use but not the estimation performance. Furthermore, it was found that participants adapted the size of the measurement units they used to the size of the TBE objects. At the same time, estimation accuracy was correlated positively with the frequency of use of external measurement units and negatively with the use of idiosyncratic units.

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estimation performance, physical estimation environment, Psychology, Experimental, ACCURACY, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, measurement units, Social Sciences, Experimental Psychology, Measurement units, Estimation performance, 5205 Social and personality psychology, 1701 Psychology, 5202 Biological psychology, Length estimation, 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology, Psychology, length estimation, Physical estimation environment

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