Gender-Specific Developmental Pathways for Boys and Girls:The Wertheimer Common-Region-Test can Predict Spatial Memory

Lange-Küttner, Christiane

doi:10.3233/dev-2010-4104

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“…It was suggested that this spatial system goes some way to recapture early mankind's conviction that the earth is a plate (Vosniadou & Brewer, 1992). Thereafter, children begin to draw areas (Lange-Küttner, 2006, 2010a. This can take the form of a bird's eye perspective, that is, a top-down view on a spatial field where human figures can become reduced to stick figures (Lange-Küttner, 2009).…”

Section: Volumementioning

confidence: 99%

Girls in detail, boys in shape: Gender differences when drawing cubes in depth

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Ebersbach

2012

British J of Psychology

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The current study tested gender differences in the developmental transition from drawing cubes in two- versus three dimensions (3D), and investigated the underlying spatial abilities. Six- to nine-year-old children (N = 97) drew two occluding model cubes and solved several other spatial tasks. Girls more often unfolded the various sides of the cubes into a layout, also called diagrammatic cube drawing (object design detail). In girls, the best predictor for drawing the cubes was Mental Rotation Test (MRT) accuracy. In contrast, boys were more likely to preserve the optical appearance of the cube array. Their drawing in 3D was best predicted by MRT reaction time and the Embedded Figures Test (EFT). This confirmed boys' stronger focus on the contours of an object silhouette (object shape). It is discussed whether the two gender-specific approaches to drawing in three dimensions reflect two sides of the appearance-reality distinction in drawing, that is graphic syntax of object design features versus visual perception of projective space.

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Section: Volumementioning

confidence: 99%

Girls in detail, boys in shape: Gender differences when drawing cubes in depth

Lange-Küttner

Ebersbach

2012

British J of Psychology

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“…Now in just one of my visual memory studies [40,42] using this research paradigm, already the 6-year-old boys allocated spatial areas to several objects, while the girls did not, see Figure 4.…”

Section: Sex Differences In Spatial Concepts: Early Achievement Actimentioning

confidence: 98%

“…An even more striking example of the statistical power of the split-sample analysis with regard to sex differences is shown in a study of the development of visual memory in children [40]. In drawing, until about age 7, children allocate one place to one object (object-place binding), but when they become older, they are more likely to allocate an area to matching objects (objects-area binding) in a common region test (CRT) [41], see Figure 3.…”

Section: Sex Differences In Spatial Concepts: Early Achievement Actimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Spatial memory accuracy and spatial binding in the CRT. Boys showed a larger gain from object-region binding than girls [40,42]. Copyright European Journal of Developmental Science.…”

Section: Sex Differences In Spatial Concepts: Early Achievement Actimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Girls (left) showed the predicted development from object-place binding to object-region binding, while boys (right) showed a U-shaped development for object-region-binding, with a later onset of object-place binding at age 8[40,42]. Copyright European Journal of Developmental Science.…”

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Sex Differences as a Statistical Variable

Lange-Küttner¹

2017

Gender Differences in Different Contexts

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Gender differences are often seen as either biologically determined or culturally acquired or conditioned. However, in an age where gender equality is the main target, neither peer reviewers nor students show much interest in gender differences. Moreover, not only do people try to integrate their 'ying' and 'yang' in their personalities also transgender identities are publicly acknowledged, appreciated and respected. Thus, in this chapter, I argue that we need to downgrade gender differences to a statistical variable that explains variance, sharpens statistical effects and reveals strategies. I am giving examples from my developmental psychology research where the split-sample analysis by gender showed amazing and often unexpected effects.

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