This study was designed to determine the relationship between the Lowenfeldian visual-haptic (perceptual) and the Piagetian concrete-formal (operational reasoning) continua. The study also investigated the relationship between age, sex, academic goal, academic preference, and a person's perceptual aptitude or intellectual reasoning abilities. Subjects of the study were 312 university students. The instruments collected data on age, sex, academic goal, academic preference, position on the concrete-formal continuum, and position on the visual-haptic continuum. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) There is a relationship between the Lowenfeldian visual-haptic continuum and the Piagetian concrete-formal continuum; (2) Age is related to both perceptual aptitude and intellectual level in a curvilinear manner; (3) Findings support the idea that sex is related to intellectual level and that, generally, males are more abstract thinkers than females; (4) Males are more visually oriented than females; (5) Academic preference is not a viable predictor of either perceptual aptitude or intellectual level; (6) The more visually oriented or the more intellectually advanced an individual is, the higher that individual's eventual academic goal is likely to be; (7) Longeot's Piagetian Classification Test is hierarchical and therefore capable of identifying a location within the concrete-formal continuum; (8) Some very formal people override the generally linear relationship between concrete-formal and visual-haptic abilities, and these individuals, while being very abstract thinkers, may be haptically oriented. (JD)