title: Correlations among ambiguous figures, curiosity, and spatial ability.
abstract: For 29 college students (6 men, 23 women) who passively viewed in each of 6 blocks both the Schroeder stair and the Necker cube for 3 min. apiece with one 3-min. rest between viewings, their frequency of reversals, sex, GPA, scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Information subtest, the two-dimensional Test 8, and the three-dimensional Test 9 of the Multiple Aptitude Test, measuring spatial ability, and three curiosity measures--the Which-to-Discuss Test, the Maze test, and the Ontario Test of Intrinsic Motivation--were not significantly correlated by Pearson's method with the number of ambiguous figure reversals.
authors.affiliation: North Central Kansas Special Education Coop, Phillipsburg, Kansas.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D003867:Depth Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009903:Optical Illusions; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013028:Space Perception