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Beyond Genetics in Mental Rotation Test Performance: The Power of Effort Attribution
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Moe, Angelica; Pazzaglia, Francesca – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This study compares the effects on Mental Rotation Test (MRT) performance of instructions that stress the importance of (a) personal effort, and (b) genetically driven ability. A total of 120 high-school students were assigned to three groups, and administered two sub-tests of the MRT. Between the first and second sub-tests, the groups received…
Descriptors: Genetics, Cognitive Tests, High School Students, Comparative Analysis