I have just completed the My Head is Spinning Tutorial. While I am not sure that I completely understand everything that I just learned; I found the tutorial activities themselves to be interesting.
Conceptual Thinking:
This activity has a candle and the mouse is the match. You are supposed to take the match and light the wick of the candle with it. I didn't really have to think when it came to this activity because it was instinctive.
Cooper & Shepard's Results:
This activity dealt with the letter R and its rotation. The reason why people's reaction times decrease after the rotation of 180 degrees is because they are the same rotations that were made earlier with the smaller degrees. The theory as to why the rate decreases (respond faster to 300 degrees than 240 degrees) is that people treat the rotation of 300 degrees clockwise the same as 60 counter clockwise.
Mental Rotation Experiment:
The pattern of my results for this experiment seemed to match the theory of Cooper's & Shepard's or at least I thought it did until I saw the chart. My chart had two short lines in the upper right hand corner and there chart had a single line rising to 180 degrees and falling from 180 degrees. I don't think that my results were conclusive at all.
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