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Target Clientele
Children and adults (7 years and older) who:
Target Skills
Mode: Visual
Principal skill(s) targeted: Mental representation from an external viewpoint
These skills require analysis of spatial relationships among objects within a given environment (for example a city), spatial visualisation, and manipulation of visual information. The element that increases the cognitive demand in this case is the fact that the client must adopt another person’s perspective. The program also places emphasis on the development of topographic schemas that are useful in everyday movements between places.
Exercises
Levels Stimuli Classes: Sole 14
Scenario and task: The client finds him/herself immersed in a miniature city with many intersections. In the top part of the screen, a plan of the city in which many objects are placed is presented. Within this city plan appears a person wearing a hat. The client must adopt this person’s perspective. This person may adopt several different positions and therefore change his or her perspective in relation to the city’s objects. The client’s task consists of finding the person within the city, adopting his perspective, and through analysis of the visual clues surrounding him, select the image that best represents his viewpoint from among a choice presented at the bottom of the screen.
Response mode(s): Click on the mouse or use arrow keys and the space bar to select.
Feedback:
Well Done! Correct response Oops… Incorrect response
Difficulty Level Variables
Level Completion Criterion: 3 consecutive correct responses
The exam
The exam is comprised of 14 items representative of the exercises from all 14 difficulty levels.
Background
Instructions
« Identify what the person wearing the hat sees. »