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Inducing strategies to solve a mental rotation task is possible: evidence from a sex-related eyetracking analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2024-12-08) Fernández-Méndez, Laura M.; Cepero Amores, Laura; Orenes, Isabel; Prieto, Antonio; Rodán, Antonio; Montoro, Pedro R.; Mayas, Julia; Cabestrero, Raúl; Contreras, María José; Raúl, Cabestrero; Contreras
The study of spatial skills is gaining importance due to their relevance in everyday activities and their critical role in developing competencies across various academic disciplines. The main goal of this study was to explore whether mental rotation strategies, such as the so-called holistic –rotating an entire object- and piecemeal –rotating individual parts of the object- approaches, can be induced, and whether sex differences emerge during the process of strategy induction. This objective holds a pivotal role as it could lead to the enhancement of mental rotation abilities and the development of effective interventions. To achieve this, a mental rotation task was conducted while eye movements were recorded. In the first block, participants solved the task freely, while in the second block, they received instructions to solve it through either a holistic (42 participants) or a piecemeal (43 participants) strategy in a between-subjects design. In both strategies, participants showed better performance in the second block compared to the first. Males outperformed females. The holistic strategy resulted in faster reaction times in the second block. The number of fixations and saccadic movements decreased in the second block compared to the first for the holistic strategy, while the piecemeal strategy exhibited the opposite ocular pattern. These results indicate that effective mental rotation strategies were successfully elicited. No sex differences were found in the analyzed eye movement variables.
Turtle Lab: a web environment to design and apply experiments. An opportunity to teach experimental psychology in distance education
(European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, 2023) Contreras, Maria Jose; Fernández-Méndez, Laura M.; Orenes, Isabel
Students’ direct experience with the research procedures related to the phenomena they study in their academic subjects is a desirable strategy for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. This strategy should include the presentation of the phenomenon and how scientists have approached it experimentally under controlled laboratory conditions. However, in some degrees such as Psychology, only a small percentage of laboratories are available for introductory courses. This situation is aggravated in distance learning universities, where virtual laboratories should be used as an alternative. Shared physical spaces limit the possibilities of analyzing effects that need continuous application times. The development of innovative practical lessons is limited by a shortage of resources. In order to design experimental practical lessons, either the purchase of programming software or the use of open access tools is required, however, the latter require programming knowledge. This project aims to facilitate the design of experimental tasks for the teaching of psychological processes through the use of an online system. With the Turtle Lab system (https://turtlelab.eu/), teachers will be able to create practical lessons without downloading software or learning how to program it. The system allows you to create tasks by uploading the experimental essays in image format and include instructions from frequently used documents (such as pdf, ppt). The expected impact is the use of the platform in postgraduate subjects, the dissemination of science and professional guidance.