You have TWO minutes to read the excerpt on the following page about a recent psychological study conducted at the University of California Berkeley. You will be asked to recall information from the excerpt as well as the graph on the following page. Please try to be as detailed as possible when answering questions.

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An article published in The Journal of Neuroscience by Liu, J. et al. (2013) found a correlation between visuospatial ability and height. The following is a summary of their findings.

In the United States, the average height for males is 5’9 ½” and

5’4” for females. Visuospatial ability refers to the understanding and conceptualizing of visual representations and spatial relationships in learning and performance tasks such as mental rotation, 3D abstraction and shape recognition. Liu et al. (2013) found that individuals of below average height performed significantly lower on tasks measuring visuospatial abilities than their counterparts of above average height. Liu et al. (2013) argued for a possible genetic component to visuospatial ability that is also involved in the expression of height.

The following is a graph of the average heights of men and

women in the United States.

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You will have FIVE minutes to complete the following task. Please look at the clock and begin now.

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