Everyday spatial activities test for studying differential spatial experience and vocational behavior

Relationship between performance on the Everyday Spatial Activities Test and on objective measures of spatial behavior in men and women

“…In agreement with earlier work (Lunneborg & Lunneborg, 1986a, 1986b, males attained higher overall scores on the ESA T because of their higher scores on the handtools, science courses, and mechanical drawing scales. In our study, women achieved significantly higher scores on the arranging objects scale; in earlier studies (Lunneborg & Lunneborg, 1986a, 1986b, a similar nonsignificant trend was observed on this measure. With the exception of the pathfmding test for males, moderate positive correlations between the total score on the ESAT and measures of visuospatial perception were observed in the present study.…”

“…With the exception of the pathfmding test for males, moderate positive correlations between the total score on the ESAT and measures of visuospatial perception were observed in the present study. Since the low correlation between scores on the pathfinding test and the ESA T for males may have arisen because of a ceiling effect, our fmdings are in agreement with earlier reports (Lunneborg & Lunneborg, 1986a, 1986b, indicating limited validity for the ESAT in predicting performance on laboratory spatial tasks.…”

“…Consistent with this idea are reports of positive correlations between performance on various tests of spatial ability and measures of experience with everyday activities that appear to possess a spatial component. Such findings have been reported for preschool children (Connor & Serbin, 1977;Serbin & Connor, 1979) and college students (Lunneborg & Lunneborg, 1986a, 1986bNewcombe, Bandura, & Taylor, 1983).…”

“…In groups of 6-15, subjects completed the ESAT (Lunneborg & Lunneborg, 1986b), the Mental Rotations Test (Vandenberg & Kuse, 1978), the revised version of the Fargo Map Test (FMT-R) (Beatty, 1988), the New Map Test (Beatty & TrOster, 1987), and the pathfinding test, a measure of egocentric spatial orientation (Beatty & Troster, 1987).…”

“…The Everyday Spatial Activities Test (ESAT) developed by Lunneborg and Lunneborg (1986b) fulfills these criteria, and , in addition, appears to possess adequate test-retest reliability (Luneborg & Lunneborg, 1986a The purpose of the present study was to gather additional information regarding the predictive validity of the ESA T. Subjects received a battery of visuospatial tests, as well as the ESAT. As a measure of real world visuospatial knowledge, we employed the Fargo Map Test, a test of geographical knowledge (Beatty & Troster, 1987).…”