title: Birth order and perceptual motor performance.
abstract: To examine the relationship between performance on the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception and birth order, 578 first-graders were tested. Later-born children performed significantly better than did firstborns on specific subtests of the Frostig (Visual-motor Coordination and Figure-ground Perception). There was a significant interaction on Perceptual Constancy which indicated that later-born males performed significantly better than did firstborn males. A secondary finding was a r of .547, a stronger relationship between intelligence level and global perceptual performance than previously reported.
mesh_terms: D001722:Birth Order; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014796:Visual Perception