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captainjonesify · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

In your textbook, Chapter 7 discusses meta-analyses that focus on gender comparisons in cognitive abilities. Which of the following is the area in which gender differences are typically the largest?

a. verbal abilities
b. mathematics abilities
c. spatial abilities such as locating hidden figures in a drawing
d. spatial abilities such as mental rotation

Question 2

The individual differences feature in Chapter 7 examines gender comparisons in mental-rotation skills. According to this discussion,

a. gender differences tend to be smaller for mental-rotation problems than for other mental imagery tasks.
b. none of the research has reported significant gender differences in mental rotation.
c. all of the research has reported significant gender differences in mental rotation.
d. the research sometimes shows that the gender differences in mental rotation disappear when the instructions are changed.