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Reasoning: Spatial Reasoning
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Abstract reasoning tests date back to the research done by the psychologist Charles Spearman in the 1920’s. Spearman used a statistical technique called factor analysis to examine relationships between people’s scores on different tests or sub-tests of intelligence. He concluded that people who do well on some intelligence tests ... do well on others (e.g. vocabulary, mathematics, spatial abilities). Conversely, if people do poorly on an intelligence test, they also tended to do poorly on other intellectual tests. This led him to believe that there are one or more factors that are common to all intellectual tasks.
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UT QSIM Group This group is headed by Ben Kuipers, who has done some of the pioneering work in spatial reasoning for navigation. The group currently maintains the QSIM software for qualitative physics simulation, but ... does significant amounts of work on reasoning and abstracting spatial aspects of understanding physical phenomena.
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[N]umerous studies have shown that children who speak two languages fluently do better in other areas like math, science and spatial reasoning. And older teens or young adults who were exposed to other languages as infants and young children will be better able to understand and speak those languages when learning them in high school or college - even if they didn't continue with instruction after their first few years of life.
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