PSYC 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spacetime, Order Type, Mental Rotation
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These differences mattered in the beginning with mating strategies, hunter-gatherer ability, finding shelter and parental skills. Women will often scan and engage in other activities at a park with children, men often will get distracted and lose their child ie. spatial processing. Female advantage on tests of verbal fluency and perceptual-motor speed. Usually standardized test with pencil and paper, mostly are time limited. Manual sequencing test: ask subject to repeat a motor sequence. Identical pictures: which picture is the same ie. matching. Verbal tests have started to close in their gaps of advantage. Word fluency: arbitrary salad modern transistor fantastic bonanza relative advantage advantage hello melody article mustard method passage canister zebra order poetry particle motor roll voluntary avid transport elephant type. Rod & frame test: seated in dark room with a frame tilted or vertical inside the frame. Embedded figures: recognize a spatial configuration in a messy background.