Sex Differences in Performance on Three Novel Continuous Response Tasks

Abstract

The Dynavision apparatus was used to assess psychomotor differences between men and women first-time users. Subjects, 50 men and 76 women, were tested on three 60-sec. Dynavision response tasks of graded difficulty. An analysis of variance with repeated measures indicated that men performed significantly better than women on all tasks. Performances on all tasks were also significantly different from each other within both sexes ( p ≤.05). Furthermore, a significant interaction between sex and task was based on a greater drop in performance on the most complex task for women than for men.