Gender Comparisons in Spatial Ability
What is effect size?
A characteristic of a sound stimulus that can be arranged on a scale from low to high
What is pitch?
Mental representation of geographic information
What is Cognitive maps?
Wrote an important article that summarized previous meta-analyses
Who is Janet Hyde?
One of the classic studies on pitch was conducted by
Who is Margaret J. Intons-Peterson?
What are our thoughts, how we navigate, and how we keep track?
Only cognitive skill where a group of males is likely to earn higher scores than a group of females
What is mental rotation?
Technique for assessing short-term memory
What is the Brown/Peterson & Peterson technique?
They represent angles in a mental map as being closer to 90 degrees than they really are
What is a 90-degree-angle heuristic?
The media usually claims that males are much better than females in their ______
What are math skills?
The distance between two tones is correlated with the distance between the two _________
What is imagined tones?
Requires lining up several separate countries, buildings, or other figures
What is alignment heuristic?
The three components of spatial ability
The sound quality of a tone
What is Timbre?
Rotating a single coastline, country, building, or other figure
What is rotation heuristic?