Looking behind the score: Skill structure explains sex differences in skilled video game performance.

摘要: Some have explained large sex differences in visuospatial abilities by genetic adaptations to different roles primitive hunter-gatherer societies and the interaction of innate biological environmental factors. We explored extent which variations behavior acquired skills can provide alternative accounts for performance a complex spatially-demanding video game (Space Fortress). Men women with limited experience were given 30 hours training, latent curve analyses examined development their ship control behavior. had significantly better than before after but diminished substantially over training period. An analysis participants’ joystick behaviors revealed that initially men relied on patterns behaviors, changes these time accounted reduced performance. When we controlled behavior, effects no longer significant. Finally, examining categorized as high low performers lower-performing may been controlling using an approach was very from higher-performing women. The potential problems analyzing women’s spatial homogenous groups are discussed, well how issues account skilled perhaps other domains involving abilities.