The Relationships of Spatial Ability and Sex to Formal Reasoning Capabilities |
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| Authors: | William M Bart Juliet Baxter Susan Frey |
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| Institution: | Department of Social, Psychological, and Philosophical Foundations of Education, University of Minnesota |
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| Abstract: | The relationships of spatial ability and sex to performance on formal easoning tasks were examined for a group of 34 male and female college tudents. It was hypothesized that spatial ability is positively related to ormal reasoning task performance which is also related to male superiority on formal reasoning task performance. Results indicated that spatial ability vas unrelated to formal reasoning task performance and that sex differinces occurred with the balance task and the pendulum task which sugested that males were superior to females at manifesting the scheme of jroportionality and at being able to isolate variables. |
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