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What Does 'Spatial Awareness' Mean?

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Generally speaking, spatial awareness is the recognition of the distance between objects.  More specifically, though, the term refers to a person’s ability to judge where they are in relation to the objects around them. The term is commonly used in reference to stages of child development.

Briefly, the first stage of child development is commonly known as the sensori-motor stage.  In this stage, small infants, for example, will recognize that they can manipulate an object using their hands and feet. 

They will also recognize things according to what they smell or see. They can also work out (to a degree) cause-and-effect relationships, and understanding object permanence is a major benchmark during this stage.

The second stage is sometimes known as the pre-operational stage.  In this stage, children are learning to identify specific groups of things like "animals” or "colors.”  This is why (once they have formed words) they might call all women "mama.” 

It is during this stage, that children begin to recognize their spatial awareness, that is to say their placement in relation to the things around them.

Encouraging the development of spatial awareness is very important, because it helps to work out things like distance, rate of speed, comparative side, and other things that are necessary for daily activities like driving. 

Without spatial awareness, you would probably be clumsier, since you would have trouble analyzing how far down the next step on the stairs was, for example. 

Obviously, proficiency in spatial awareness affects motor skills overall, and it is therefore extremely important.
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Spatial awareness is the awareness of things in the space around us. It also deals with the awareness of our body's position in space.

Spatial awareness is a basic thing to have, but one that can help solve the most complex of problems.

Without spatial awareness, we would not be able to scroll down this page, for example. Without spatial awareness, we would not be able to walk up to the refrigerator, open up its door and gulp down a bottle of water.

Spatial awareness makes us distinguish between the words on this page and see the letters in correct relation to each other.

It goes without saying that enhancing your spatial awareness has crucial importance in sports and games.

Deficiencies in spatial awareness can prevent people from maximizing their true potential.

Some exercises to improve your spatial awareness:
  • Practice map reading
  • Try taking a different direction to a destination
  • Give directions to people
  • Try to write or brush your teeth with your left-hand (if you are a right-handed person, or vice versa)
  • Play jigsaw puzzles and 3D games
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Spatial awareness is a well thought-out awareness of things in the space around us. It also deals with the awareness of our body's position in space.
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Spatial comes from the Latin word spatium, meaning "space."

Spatial is related to the nature of space, and anything to do with space is known as spatial. If temporal is a term related to "time," then "spatial" is a term associated with "space."

  • Spatial awareness is a term which deals with the ability to be aware of the things in space around us.
  • Spatial analysis deals with a body of techniques used in geography, statistics, mapping, surveying, remote-sensing, and mathematics and computer science.
  • Spatial relation is defined as the distance of an object located in space in relation to a certain reference object.

Spatial is believed to have entered popular English literature for the first time in middle of the 16th century.
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It is an awareness of the self in physical space, whether it be real or artificial space. If you tend to get lost when playing video games, you have bad spatial awareness.
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Spatial is used to describe things relating to size, area, or position, rather than to time.

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