Meulen, Ilse van der (2024) The role of body movement intensity in the gear-system paradigm. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Findings about the role of body movement intensity in the gear-system paradigm, where determining the target gear direction depends on the driving gear direction, are contradictory. One line of research suggests that gestures, highlighting perceptual-motor information, hinder the discovery of parity, the recognition of the even and odd structure of gear-systems. Conversely, another line of research posits that utilizing gestures during force-tracing, a strategy commonly used before parity discovery in which the rotation of each gear is simulated with finger movements, is a critical source of entropy that fosters self-organization and aids in parity discovery. During the experiment, participants (n = 120) had to solve six gear-system problems in either the gesture-allowed or gesture-prohibited condition. The experiment was recorded to code the strategies utilized. Findings revealed that the proportion of participants using parity at least once was .50 in both the gesture-allowed and gesture-prohibited condition. Furthermore, the slope between trial -1 and trial 0 was not significantly steeper for the gesture-allowed condition than the gesture-prohibited condition. This suggests that the role of body movement intensity may not be as substantial in the gear-system paradigm as previously assumed. Keywords: body movement intensity, entropy, force-tracing, gear-system paradigm, gestures, parity, perceptual-motor information
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Jonge-Hoekstra, L. de |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2024 14:01 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Apr 2024 14:01 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3300 |
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