Contribution of Sex-Differentiated Experiences to Spatial and Mechanical Reasoning Abilities
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 59 (1) , 107-113
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1984.59.1.107
Abstract
For 137 women and 115 men first-year college students tested spatial visualization and mechanical reasoning were most strongly correlated with four everyday spatial abilities—understanding mathematics/science and graphs/charts, drafting and drawing things, and arranging objects. Despite greater practice on only 2 of 10 activities, men uniformly judged they had significantly better spatial ability compared to their same-gender peers than did the women.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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