Individual differences in visualization and childhood play preferences.

ABSTRACT: Our research explored the structure of childhood visual play preferences, and examined different types of visual play in relation to individual differences in visualization and aptitudes in academic specializations requiring visualization skills. Principal component analysis dissociated visual-object play (e.g., exploring drawing media or decorative crafts) from visual-spatial play (e.g., assembling and disassembling mechanisms or playing with construction toys) preferences. Moreover, visual play preferences were dissociated from verbal play preferences (e.g., vocabulary games or making up stories). The structure of visual play preferences was consistent with object and spatial dimensions of individual differences in visualization. Visual-object and visual-spatial dimensions of play prefer

SUBMITTER: Blazhenkova O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7292923 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature