Jansen Petra, Heil Martin
Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Exp Aging Res. 2010 Jan-Mar;36(1):94-104. doi: 10.1080/03610730903422762.
Although gender differences in mental rotation in younger adults are prominent in paper-pencil tests as well as in chronometric tests with polygons as stimuli, less is known about this topic in the older age ranges. Therefore, performance was assessed with the Mental Rotation Test (MRT) paper-pencil test as well as with a computer-based two-stimulus same-different task with polygons in a sample of 150 adults divided into three age groups, 20-30, 40-50, and 60-70 years. Performance decreased with age, and men outperformed women in all age groups. The gender effect decreased with age in the MRT, possibly due to a floor effect. Gender differences remained constant across age, however, in the error rates of the computer-based task.
尽管在年轻人中，纸笔测试以及以多边形为刺激物的计时测试中，心理旋转的性别差异很显著，但在老年人群体中，关于这个主题的了解较少。因此，在一项研究中，对150名成年人进行了评估，这些成年人被分为三个年龄组：20 - 30岁、40 - 50岁和60 - 70岁，评估方式包括心理旋转测试（MRT）纸笔测试以及基于计算机的多边形二刺激异同任务。表现随年龄下降，且在所有年龄组中男性的表现都优于女性。在MRT中，性别效应随年龄下降，可能是由于地板效应。然而，在基于计算机的任务的错误率方面，性别差异在各年龄组中保持不变。
