PSYC 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heterosexuality, Content Analysis, Inferior Frontal Gyrus
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Early sex and gender difference in the creative arts. In play, toddlers are more interested in play with the same gender. Toddlers spent more time looking at a film of a toddler of the same gender, even when dressed in neutral clothes. Males outperform females on spatial tasks, females are more likely to be. Prefer gender stereotypical art as early as 4. 5 years of age. Boys tend to draw pictures with more aggressive themes, more angular lines. Girls themes are more generally peaceful and domestic in nature, focus on more verbally fluent girls mature earlier. Creative writing boys use more dangerous, wild and strong animals, more aggressive themes; girls are more likely to use animals that are tame, weak, or considered safe detail more often and lines are more fluid and rounder. Children in general learn about 10-20 new words per day. Girls typically produce words earlier and have larger vocabularies, also produce more written language.
