Early sex differences in spatial skill
Early sex differences in spatial skill
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.35.4.940
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发表时间：
1999-07-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Langrock, A
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作者：
Levine, SC;Huttenlocher, J;Langrock, A
这项研究调查了幼儿空间技能方面的性别差异。作者设计了一项空间转换任务，该任务显示在4岁6个月时男孩具有显著优势。这种优势在旋转项目上并不比在平移项目上更明显。这一发现与对年龄较大的儿童和成年人的研究形成对比，那些研究报告称在心理旋转任务中性别差异最大。男孩和女孩在词汇任务上表现相当，这表明男孩在空间任务上的优势并非源于样本中男孩在整体智力上的优势。
This study investigated sex differences in young children's spatial skill. The authors developed a spatial transformation task, which showed a substantial male advantage by age 4 years 6 months. The size of this advantage was no more robust for rotation items than for translation items. This finding contrasts with studies of older children and adults, which report that sex differences are largest on mental rotation tasks. Comparable performance of boys and girls on a vocabulary task indicated that the male advantage on the spatial task was not attributable to an overall intellectual advantage of boys in the sample.