Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1999. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-104). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ56179.

Thesis--University of Chicago, 1920. / "Private edition, distributed by the University of Chicago libraries, Chicago Illinois." "Printed from Psychological monographs, vol. XXXII, no. 4, whole no. 146."

Inaug.-diss.--Würzburg. / Cover title. Dissertation note on half-title. Sonderabdruck aus "Archiv für die gesamte psychologie", bd xvi, 3. u. 4. hft. "Angabe der neueren literatur in gebiete des tastsĭnnes: p. 129-130.

This study seeks to examine how children utilize spatial ability to deal with spatial objects, such as reading pictures, building toy blocks and dealing with the relationship between objects. The main focus of this study is to understand how children utilize spatial ability to complete different spatial tasks. The study comprises of two contrasting cases of two 10 years old children. Each case encompasses to basic components namely: i) the perspective skills tasks, and ii) the small-scale space tasks. In each component task-based clinical interviews were used as the primary data collection instrument. The interviews were video-recorded and analyzed The small-scale space tasks required the children to build an experimental SimCity consisting six objects. The subjects were asked to complete the task twice, one as an identical mapping and once as a 1800 mirror image. In the first experiment, the children were asked to place the objects on a piece of grid paper in exactly the same position as they saw the objects in the SimCity. In the second experiment, the children were asked to place the objects on a piece of grid paper at exactly 1800 to what they observed the objects in the SimCity. The results showed that if the child neglected any one of the skills, they would make errors. This was best illustrated in the case where the children handled the L-shaped block. Child 2 made mistakes in recognizing the block in both in the first and second small-scale space tasks. These errors were related to the understanding of the spatial relation and the visual form constancy. The results showed that for placing the L-shaped block in the right position and direction, visual form constancy plays an important role. The results also showed that without using the orientation ability in which the skills include the spatial determination, spatial recognition, spatial form constancy and spatial relationship, it would also affect how the children deal with the small-scale space task. The result showed that the children need to relate to the visualization and orientation ability so as to deal with the relationship between themselves and the objects, among objects; and the objects and the environment. As a conclusion when the children were dealing with the task, basically they would use the skill of visual discrimination to determine every object. The evidence indicated that both children could make use of these skills. In addition, the using of object- to- object frame of reference and the child’s reasoning behind her/his spatial action also play an important role for successful performance of the small-scale space tasks. The study makes a contribution to theory by the originality of the design of the instrument. Furthermore, the findings unfolding the children spatial understanding provides insights for developing further topics in the school curriculum for enhancing students’ spatial sense. / published_or_final_version / Education / Doctoral / Doctor of Education

This dissertation peruses the question of alienation through two short stories by the local writer Hon Lai-chu. The first objective is to delineate the exact form and content that the phenomenon of alienation assumes, its particularity in specific spatio-temporal settings, and the necessary relation of it to space and people within the contexts. At the centre of my materialist analysis lies a deprivation of what I call the right to space, and concomitant resistance by the narrators. The clarification of the specificity of alienation helps an understanding of it in and beyond any (con) text: It is but one form of an exploitative logic, of man imposed on man. Thus the urgent task now is as much to trace the various major ramifications of human exploitation, in different cultures across different periods, through which the nature of human condition can be gauged, as to pave a way to articulation of localisms instead of Localism, with respect to the situation of Hong Kong. The second objective so registers a refusal of a reductive and totalizing rubric of describing our city. I instead seek to ascribe the validity of this description to the average person. It is through their actions and voices in everyday life that they regain, however briefly, the right to space, and therewith constitute personal resistance which I give the name localisms. / published_or_final_version / Literary and Cultural Studies / Master / Master of Arts

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The purpose of the study was to design a valid and reliable instrument to measure sensitivity to the principles of spatial illusionism, the Spatial Illusionism Sensitivity Test, hereafter referred to as the SIST.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-85). Also available via the Internet.