Abstract
In this experiment gender differences in a spatial task called mental rotation was analyzed. Participants were told to verify if the images they were presented with were the same or not. The response time was recorded and analyzed. In previous studies men have outperformed women by having faster response times. In this experiment women had faster response times, however, it was not significantly different.
Gender differences in spatial ability tasks have been researched extensively. To have spatial ability is to have the capacity to maintain, produce, retrieve and transform well structured visual images. Spatial ability tests are seen as measures of practical abilities that are useful for predicting success in technical occupations but not as measures of reasoning abilities. A type of spatial test is mental rotation, which is the ability to rotate a visual image in the mind. Shepard & and Metzler (1971) found that the response time increased as the degree of......
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