The Study That Compared the Spatial Skills of Aboriginal Children

question 103

Multiple Choice

The study that compared the spatial skills of Aboriginal children growing up in the Australian desert with those of their White peers growing up in Australian cities demonstrated that:

• A) the lack of pressure exerted by parents of White children to develop spatial skills enabled children to gain greater insight into spatial orientations.
• B) the lack of human-made landmarks, such as street signs, in the desert resulted in poor spatial ability in Aboriginal children.
• C) familiarity of context, not the importance of spatial ability in everyday life, was associated with the memory for spatial location.
• D) the importance of spatial ability in Aboriginal culture resulted in better memory for spatial location in Aboriginal children regardless of context.

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