PSY 321:  Cognitive Processes
Mental Rotation

Do the following steps to complete this assignment:

  1. Review pages 263 to 264 of the text.  Become familiar with the term mental rotation..

  2. Make sure that you have a current web browser.  The experiment has been tested with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP and Internet Explorer 5.2, Opera, and Firefox 1.0.7 on the Mac OS X.  Make sure that Java is enabled in your browser.

  3. Read the information about the details of the experiment on the Start page.

  4. Do the experiment.  It should take less than 60 minutes to complete.

  5. Submit your results to the web server no later than midnight on February 28.  Your data will be displayed along with everyone else's data.

  6. Follow the instructions in the Suggested Data Analysis section of the page that is displayed when you submit your results.

  7. Write the APA style paper.  The first page is to be the title page.  Pages two and three will consist of a brief (no more than one half page each) review of relevant literature and discussion of the hypotheses that are being tested in the study, followed by an abbreviated methods section, a short description of the results, and a discussion of those results.  The final page is to be an APA style reference section.

    8.   Sections of the manuscript after the reference section (e.g. tables, figures) are not counted in the page limit.
  8. Turn the paper in no later than the start of class on Wednesday, March 12.