Intuitive Physics: The Straight-Down Belief and Its Origin.

McCloskey, Michael; And Others

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Publication Date: 1983

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Intuitive Physics: The Straight-Down Belief and Its Origin.

McCloskey, Michael; And Others

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v9 n4 p636-49 Oct 1983

Many people erroneously believe that an object carried by another moving object will, if dropped, fall in a straight vertical line. This belief may stem from a perceptual illusion in which objects dropped from a moving carrier are perceived as falling straight down or even backward. (Author/RD)

Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Mechanics (Physics), Motion, Scientific Concepts, Videotape Recordings, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli

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