Title
The effects of spatial anxiety on memory for spatio-temporal scale.
Abstract
Previous literature has shown that spatial anxiety relates to navigation abilities (Hund u0026 Gill, 2014). How spatial anxiety effects the spatial-temporal perception of one’s environment is not well known. The present student aimed to examine how spatial anxiety related to the memory of distances and time to landmarks in the surrounding area. Participants completed a battery of navigation questionnaires and reported how far (both in distance and time) different known landmarks in the surrounding area were. Data show a trend suggesting that females overestimated distances whereas males were more accurate in estimates to the five furthest landmarks. Spatial anxiety did not predict distance estimates; however, mobility within the surrounding area was marginally predictive of distance estimates for females. These findings suggest that spatial anxiety does not predict the remembered distances and time estimates to landmarks, but that mobility may be a more important predictive factor in remembered distances to landmarks.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
CogSci
Anxiety,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Perception
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Devin Gill101.69
Jeanine Stefanucci27910.07
Sarah H. Creem-Regehr361556.81
Erica Barhorst400.34