Titze, Corinna and Jansen, Petra and Heil, Martin (2010) Mental rotation performance in fourth graders: No effects of gender beliefs (yet?). LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 20 (5). pp. 459-463. ISSN 1041-6080, 1873-3425
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The influence of gender beliefs on cognitive task performance has been demonstrated repeatedly for adults. For children, there is evidence that gender beliefs can substantially impede or boost math performance a task where gender differences in favour of boys declined over past decades. Therefore, we examined this phenomenon using the Mental Rotations Test (MRT), a task where gender differences still occur reliably favouring males for adults as well as for children. A sample of 252 fourth graders, whose beliefs about spatial ability were manipulated experimentally (instructions given: boys are better, girls are better or independent of gender) had to complete the MRT. In contrast to adult's literature, children's performance did not decrease or increase as a function of instruction: boys always outperformed girls; girls not even outperformed their same-sex counterparts given the "girls better" instruction. The transfer of the conceptual approach failed possible reasons are discussed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SEX-DIFFERENCES; STEREOTYPE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SPATIAL ABILITIES; IDENTITY; MATH; MATHEMATICS; SALIENCE; THREAT; Mental rotation; Gender differences; Fourth graders; Gender beliefs |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2020 12:35 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2020 12:35 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/24102 |
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