The Research Of The Spatial Updating Influenced By Self-rated Sense Of Direction, Familiar Degree Of Environment Under The Multidimensional Environment

At present, The foreign researches on spatial cognition are mainly concentrating on two respects: environmental spatial ability and spatial updating. Environmental spatial ability is to orient oneself or point out direction of goals among environment, it can be often seen in daily life. The sense of direction, an important factor of the environmental spatial ability, can be formally defined as knowledge of the location and orientation of the body with respect to the large stationary objects. People will form and keep the spatial representations of the objects in the environment. As people change their positions, they need to convert those spatial representations constantly, namely updating the spatial representations. There are close relations between research on individual spatial upgrading and the individual's environmental spatial ability. Nowadays, abroad psychologists has made plenty of studies on true scene. The speciality in this research is it investigates individual egocentric spatial updating under the simulation of true environment, imitating the familiar environment and the unfamiliar environment. By dividing the simulative environments into familiar unfamiliar ones, the auther of this thesis makes further comparison of the two cognition -process strategies in the simulative scenes, and examines relations among spatial ability tested by figure, self-rated spatial ability and people' s real spatial ability are examined in updating tasks.Four experiments of this research are generally one mix experimental design. The concrete conditions of four experiments are as follows: One. The simulative environment in Experiment one is familiar environment, the task on spatial pointing is orientation. Two. The simulative environment in Experiment two is familiarenvironment, the task on spatial pointing is location.Three. The simulative environment in Experiment three is unfamiliar environment, the task on spatial pointing is orientation.Four. The simulative environment in Experiment four is unfamiliar environment, the task on spatial pointing is location.Integrating the experimental results and relevant discussions of this research, The study supports following conclusions.One. There is high relevance in pointing task among spatial ability tested by figures, self-rated spatial ability and people' s real spatial ability. To a certain extent, it proves that people can accurately assess one's own environmental spatial ability .We think such correct estimation ability is the result of the daily life accumulation.Two. People who reported good sense of direction always have higher spatial task ability under different situations, People who reported poor sense of direction relative have lower spatial task ability.Three. In imagining navigation, the processing strategies that individuals choose will influence the spatial updating on spatial representations. If only there is input of vision information, but the individual can't turn this kind of vision information into a kind of kinaesthesia information, during locomotion individuals do not update the surrounding environment spatial representations.Four. People' s cognition -process strategies in familiar environment and unfamiliar environment are different, people in familiar environment incline to use kinaesthesia process strategy . On the contrary, people in unfamiliar environment incline to use vision strategy.Five. Familiar degree of environment and environmental sample size of space will influence spatial updating in the experiment. The present study show that under familiar environment, during moving people can update spatial representations; While under unfamiliar environment it does not happen. This result is on the basis of large sample space, as for little sample there need a further verification .Six. The processing mechanism of transformation form 2D to 3D is easier...