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 …

Examined the nature and origin of a common misconception about moving objects. Pencil-
and-paper problems completed by 177 undergraduates showed that many Ss erroneously …

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 …

Previous studies have shown that many adults have striking misconceptions about the
motions of objects in seemingly simple situations. The present two studies explored the …

Recent studies have shown that many people demonstrate erroneous beliefs about motion
when asked to predict the trajectories of objects. The present experiments examine whether …

Abstract 96 4.5–12 yr olds and 20 college students were asked to draw the path a ball would
take when exiting a curved tube. As in previous studies, many Ss erroneously predicted …

pulling in the visual perception of objects Page 1 Phenomenal causality: Impressions of pulling
in the visual perception of objects in motion PETER A. WHITE AND ALAN MILNE University of …

There are infinitely many ways in which an object might rigidly move between any two
positions in space. Experiments on real, apparent, and imagined motion indicate, however …

What are people doing when they use a mental model? As psychologists, we are attempting
to understand how people learn and reason about physical systems. We are trying to …

In the preceding article1, we established a need for physics instruction which takes the initial
common sense (CS) beliefs of students into account. Other investigators2-9 have identified …