Predictors of Sat Mathematics Scores of Gifted Male and Gifted Female Adolescents

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelagh A. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Learning Style ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Mathematics Scores ◽  
Cognitive Reasoning ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Speed Of Response ◽  
Differential Performance ◽  
Predominant Factor ◽  
Males And Females

A regression analysis was conducted to determine the relative importance of a series of variables in the prediction of SAT-Mathematics (SAT-M) scores of gifted males and females. Among the variables considered were visual-spatial ability, cognitive reasoning ability, learning style, and SAT-Verbal (SAT-V) scores. Scores on the visual-spatial task were analyzed for speed of response as well as ability. For both sexes, reasoning skills were the predominant factor in the prediction formulas. Differences in the two formulas seemed to reflect males' greater facility with process skills necessary for the SAT-M. Implications are discussed regarding how to interpret the differential performance of gifted males and females on the SAT-M.

Examining Differences in Visual--Spatial Task Performance: Sport Participation and Gender

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Logan Kaleta ◽  
David E. Ritchie ◽  
Scott Leydig ◽  
Susana Quintana Marikle ◽  
Stephen A. Russo
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Spatial Task Performance

Tones disrupt visual fixations and responding on a visual-spatial task.

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1301-1312
Author(s):  
Dylan Laughery ◽  
Noah Pesina ◽  
Christopher W. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Task ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Visual Fixations

Youth Assets and Sexual Risk Behavior: Differences Between Male and Female Adolescents

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trisha Mueller ◽  
Lorrie Gavin ◽  
Roy Oman ◽  
Sara Vesely ◽  
Cheryl Aspy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Youth Assets

Youth internal assets and external resources are protective factors that can help youth avoid potentially harmful behaviors. This study investigates how the relationship between youth assets or resources and two sexual risk behaviors (ever had sex and birth control use) varied by gender. Data were collected through in-home interviews from parent—adolescent dyads, including 1,219 females and 1,116 males. Important differences exist between male and female adolescents. Females with the nonparental role models or the family communication resource were more likely to report never having had sexual intercourse than were females without the resources. Among males, the aspirations for the future and responsible choices assets were associated with never having had sexual intercourse. Males and females had two assets or resources in common that were protective of never having had sex: peer role models and use of time (religion). Considering which youth assets and resources are more likely to positively influence sexual behaviors of males and females may be important when planning prevention programs with youth.

scholarly journals Visual spatial attention and spatial working memory do not draw on shared capacity-limited core processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 799-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina J Howard ◽  
Rebekah Pole ◽  
Paulina Montgomery ◽  
Amanda Woodward ◽  
Duncan Guest ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Spatial Working Memory ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Monitoring Task ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Location Binding ◽  
Load Types ◽  
Position Monitoring

The extent to which similar capacity limits in visual attention and visual working memory indicate a common shared underlying mechanism is currently still debated. In the spatial domain, the multiple object tracking (MOT) task has been used to assess the relationship between spatial attention and spatial working memory though existing results have been inconclusive. In three dual task experiments, we examined the extent of interference between attention to spatial positions and memory for spatial positions. When the position monitoring task required keeping track of target identities through colour-location binding, we found a moderate detrimental effect of position monitoring on spatial working memory and an ambiguous interaction effect. However, when this task requirement was removed, load increases in neither task were detrimental to the other. The only very moderate interference effect that remained resided in an interaction between load types but was not consistent with shared capacity between tasks—rather it was consistent with content-related crosstalk between spatial representations. Contrary to propositions that spatial attention and spatial working memory may draw on a common shared set of core processes, these findings indicate that for a purely spatial task, perceptual attention and working memory appear to recruit separate core capacity-limited processes.

Body Satisfaction in Adolescence

1971 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Standards Of Beauty

Body-satisfaction and self-satisfaction scales based on the work of Secord and Jourard (1953) were given to 146 male and 194 female adolescents ranging in age from 11 through 19 yr. Response tendencies of males and females are significantly different, females expressing more dissatisfaction with themselves and their bodies than do males. The expression of body- and self-satisfaction was not related to age for this range. Despite differences in response tendencies, male and female adolescents tended to react to body- and self-satisfaction items in a similar fashion. For both sexes the same degree of relative dissatisfaction was expressed for those aspects of the body experience associated with growth, namely, height, weight, and physique. It is also suggested that the relative expression of dissatisfaction with height, weight, chest, waist, and hips may reflect cultural factors associated with concerns with weight gain in an affluent society, rather than concerns with stylized standards of beauty.

Eliminating Gender Differences Through Practice in an Applied Visual Spatial Task

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Kass ◽  
Robert H. Ahlers ◽  
Melissa Dugger
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Visual Spatial

Effects of Gender on Perception of Spatial Illusions

1995 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 625-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc E. Pratarelli ◽  
Brenda J. Steitz
Keyword(s):  
Prior Experience ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Performance Differences ◽  
Males And Females

Popular theories explaining performance differences between males and females generally predict that females tend to outperform males on certain perceptual and linguistic tasks, while males outperform females on tasks involving visual-spatial skills. 28 males and females were shown commercially available computer-generated 3-dimensional illusions in which the hidden object(s) varied in complexity. Although females reported more prior experience with this form of art, males were about four times faster at identifying the illusions at all levels of difficulty.

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