Do males have better spatial awareness than females?
Do males have better spatial awareness than females?
Spatial Awareness: the ability to be aware and conscious of ourselves and objects in our environment, and their movement in space in relation to each other.
Experimental hypothesis: males will correctly identify more shape pairs than females in a mental shape rotation task measuring spatial awareness.
Null hypothesis: there will be no difference in the number of right answers achieved by males and females in the mental shape rotation task measuring spatial awareness, except due to chance.
Research method: I will be using a quasi-experiment. This is where the independent variable is not manipulated by the researcher but occurs naturally; in this case, the independent variable is gender, which cannot be altered, so the groups are pre-determined by sex.
To test whether males have better spatial awareness than females, participants will be required to complete a task which requires them to mentally rotate a shape and match it to the corresponding one, but it will be in a different position.
This will be conducted in a laboratory setting, as the environment can be easily controlled, ensuring the only factor affecting the scores between the two groups is their gender.
Controls: To prevent variables other than gender affecting the scores the participants achieves, controls are needed. These include:
*All participants must be the same age
*They must do the same task
*The task must be conducted in the same environment
*The participants must receive the same standardised instructions so the experiment is carried out in the same way for all, eg. The same time to complete the task
*Participants must be seated away from each other so answers cannot be copied to avoid confounding variables.
Variables: The independent variable is the gender of the participant.
The dependant variable is the number of correct answers given by the participant on a mental shape rotation task.
Sampling method: I will be
Spatial Awareness: the ability to be aware and conscious of ourselves and objects in our environment, and their movement in space in relation to each other.
Experimental hypothesis: males will correctly identify more shape pairs than females in a mental shape rotation task measuring spatial awareness.
Null hypothesis: there will be no difference in the number of right answers achieved by males and females in the mental shape rotation task measuring spatial awareness, except due to chance.
Research method: I will be using a quasi-experiment. This is where the independent variable is not manipulated by the researcher but occurs naturally; in this case, the independent variable is gender, which cannot be altered, so the groups are pre-determined by sex.
To test whether males have better spatial awareness than females, participants will be required to complete a task which requires them to mentally rotate a shape and match it to the corresponding one, but it will be in a different position.
This will be conducted in a laboratory setting, as the environment can be easily controlled, ensuring the only factor affecting the scores between the two groups is their gender.
Controls: To prevent variables other than gender affecting the scores the participants achieves, controls are needed. These include:
*All participants must be the same age
*They must do the same task
*The task must be conducted in the same environment
*The participants must receive the same standardised instructions so the experiment is carried out in the same way for all, eg. The same time to complete the task
*Participants must be seated away from each other so answers cannot be copied to avoid confounding variables.
Variables: The independent variable is the gender of the participant.
The dependant variable is the number of correct answers given by the participant on a mental shape rotation task.
Sampling method: I will be