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Direct linkWang, Lu; Carr, Martha – Educational Psychologist, 2014
In this review, a new model that is grounded in information-processing theory is proposed to account for gender differences in spatial ability. The proposed model assumes that the relative strength of working memory, as expressed by the ratio of visuospatial working memory to verbal working memory, influences the type of strategies used on spatial…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Gender Differences, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis
