Spatial ability, navigation strategy, and geographic knowledge among men and women
Spatial ability, navigation strategy, and geographic knowledge among men and women
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DOI：
10.1016/s1090-5138(97)00107-4
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发表时间：
1998-03-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Milun, R
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作者：
Dabbs, JM;Chang, EL;Milun, R
在一项关于导航策略和地理知识性别差异的研究中，90名男性和104名女性完成了认知空间测试，根据当地地图给出方向，并在世界地图上识别地点。在空间测试中，男性在心理旋转技能上优于女性，但在物体位置记忆方面，男性和女性相似，在给出方向方面，男性更抽象和欧几里德式，使用英里和东北-东南-东南-西部术语，而女性更具体和个人化，使用地标和左右术语。年龄较大的男女受试者都比年轻受试者给出了更抽象的欧几里得方向，在世界地图上，男性比女性识别出更多的地方。这些数据符合一个因果模型，即性别通过空间技能上的性别差异直接或间接地预测世界地图知识和欧几里德方向的使用。年龄效应与性别无关，支持空间认知的发展观。(C)1998年爱思唯尔科学公司。
In a study of sex differences in navigation strategy and geographic knowledge, 90 men and 104 women completed cognitive spatial tests, gave directions from local maps, and identified places on a world map, On the spatial tests, men were better than women in mental rotation skill, but men and women were similar in object location memory, In giving directions, men were more abstract and Euclidian, using miles and north-south-east-west terms, whereas women were more concrete and personal, using landmarks and left-right terms. Older subjects of both sexes gave more abstract Euclidian directions than younger subjects did, On the world map, men identified more places than women did. The data fit a causal model in which sex predicts world map knowledge and the use of Euclidian directions, both directly and indirectly through a sex difference in spatial skills. The age effect, which was independent of sex, supports a developmental view of spatial cognition. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Inc.