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Peer reviewedScher, Anat – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Forty five-year-olds compared two arms of an L-shaped figure on-axis or perpendicular to axis inside circles of different diameters. In making perceptual judgments about the relative length, the children tended to describe the on-axis line as longer. The context model of visual anomalies was supported. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Education, Hypothesis Testing, Pictorial Stimuli
