spatial ability

collocation in English

meaningsofspatialandability

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spatial
adjective
uk
/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/us
/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/
relating to the position, area, and size ...
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ability
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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(Definition ofspatialandabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Consequently, scale construction initially followed a face validity approach to form indices of verbal andspatialability.
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Par ticipants also completed two tasks ofspatialability.
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This is in agreement with the literature,5 in thatspatialabilityappears to be an inherent trait and can not be learnt.
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Both verbal andspatialabilityat age 3 years measures predicted to scholastic ability at age 11 years.
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The results of this were correlated withspatialabilityassessed using the lego block test.
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The results suggest therapy radiographers have a higher degree ofspatialabilitythan the general population.
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Indeed, if anything, these studies on 3-year-olds suggest that poorspatialabilityrepresents an early correlate of antisocial behavior.
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It would be interesting to determine if significant differences inspatialabilityexist between various health care professions.
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In this study, a relationship between clinical andspatialabilitywas not identified.
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A review of the literature indicates that research intospatialabilitylevels for other professions allied to medicine has not been undertaken.
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This study examines whether therapy radiographers have a greaterspatialabilitythan the general population, and secondly the relationship between spatial and clinical ability.
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Similar studies undertaken by surgeons8'9 compared clinical competence withspatialabilityand found the relationship between the two was significant.
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This would suggest thatspatialabilityis innate and cannot be improved upon with experience.
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Independent measures are thespatialabilityand the number of actions to complete the given task.
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Whilst a potential useful instrument has been identified further research needs to be undertaken in this area asspatialabilityis just one factor needed for clinical competence.
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These tests were summed and further standardized to a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 to form an index of age 3 yearsspatialability.
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The timing of these developments reveals two major episodes in the evolution inspatialability, one, 1.5 million years ago and the other, one million years later.
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In contrast, age 11 years verbal andspatialabilitydid not add further to discriminating group membership after taking into account age 3 yearsspatialability.
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Spatialabilitytesting in diagnostic radiography.
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