Document Type
Thesis - campus only access
Date of Award
Summer 1976
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Psychology
Advisor
Robert Markley
Abstract
The present study attempted to clarify the effect of copying complex figures on the experience of time duration. The subjects were 30 volunteers from psychology classes at Fort Hays Kansas State College. The task required subjects to copy complex figures of either 5, 9, or 13 interior angles during a standard interval of either 12, 14, 16, 18 or 20 seconds and then reproduce an equal interval while copying different figures. The hypotheses of this study were: (1) that copying less complex figures during the standard interval would cause overestimation of the reproduced interval in which more complex figures were drawn; (2) that copying more complex figures during the standard interval would cause underestimation of the reproduced interval in which less complex figures were drawn. The results indicated that complexity as defined here did not affect the experience of time duration. Length of the standard interval did effect the duration reproduced, but this effect disappeared when the times were transformed into ratios. Thus, length of time only effected duration reproduction directly and did not interact with the other variables. The conclusions of the present study are that copying complex figures may allow subjects to use strategies that enable them to disregard the complexity of the whole figure.
Recommended Citation
Hansen, Michael R., "The Effect of Copying Complex Figures on the Experience of Time Duration" (1976). Master's Theses. 1620.
DOI: 10.58809/YUPQ5593
Available at:
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/1620
Rights
© 1976 Michael R. Hansen
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