Perception of Verticality by Boys and Girls in Grade 6
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 51 (2) , 355-358
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1980.51.2.355
Abstract
Understanding of the principle of verticality was tested by having 246 sixth grade students draw a pendulum on pictures of an abstract shape similar to a steeple. Girls performed more poorly than boys. Verticality was apparently much better understood by subjects than horizontality, also tested to provide a comparison.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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