Overall I thought this article was very informative. It presented the information in a clear and concise manner. I summarized the information that I thought was especially useful for this class. The article really made me think how important it is not only to have spatial skills, but also to have an understanding of them. This article was about what spatial skills are, how these skills are developed, and the gender differences that occur with spatial abilities.
Spatial abilities are abilities that a person is born with in the task of visualization.
Spatial skills on the other hand, are skills that must be acquired through training. The problem with defining special skills is that is no real agreement about the definition. There have been several attempts to define the term spatial skill. However, no one definition is accurate enough to cover all the forms of spatial skill. In many definitions the skills overlap and do not clearly show how one skill differs from another.