People often make erroneous predictions about the trajectories of moving objects.
McCloskey (1983a, 1983b) and others have suggested that many of these errors stem from …

Tested whether Ss' incorrect beliefs about motion, which were apparent in pencil-and-paper
abstract problems, were actually held in real situations. Several findings in the literature …

Two experiments were conducted to characterize the system of beliefs that make up the
naive impetus theory of motion and to determine what effects physics instruction has on …

Individuals untutored in physics sometimes answer questions about motion in ways that are
internally consistent but highly incompatible with accepted physical theory; this might mean …

In this chapter we describe research aimed at determining what sorts of knowledge are in
fact acquired through experience with moving objects. We first present some basic findings …

People possess implicit theories about the motion of objects, theories that are often
incorrect. When asked to predict the path of an object emerging from a curved tube, for …

Previous research has demonstrated that many people have misconceptions about basic
properties of motion. In two experiments, we examined whether people are more likely to …

The judged vanishing point of a target undergoing apparent motion in a horizontal, vertical,
or oblique direction was examined. In Experiment 1, subjects indicated the vanishing point …

University students were asked to solve simple problems about the trajectories of falling
objects. A majority of the students revealed a variety of misconceptions about motion …

Investigated whether people can select as correct natural trajectories over anomalous ones
when presented with the actual on-going event (motion conditions) or static representations …