PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Infant Mortality, Puberty
10 Dec 2015
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Physical, motor, sensory development boys tend to be better at gross-motor skills girls tend to be better at fine motors skills. Extent to which brain function is organized across the two cerebral hemispheres. Females have language centers on both sides of the brain. Male connections run between the front and back pats of the same side of the brain. Female brains have more of these across hemisphere connections. Men better at manipulating objects, constructing 3-d forms, mentally mapping. Women tend to write and speak earlier- superior verbal abilities in early school: cognitive differences complex figures years, social differences. Men tend to use more direct forms of aggression, females more indirect. Girls more compliant to demands of parents and other adults, boys are more variable: role differences. Gender typing the process by which children acquire the values, motives and behaviors considered appropriate for their gender (in their particular culture) (pg 505) Chromosomal differences: chromosomes drive 2 processes, sex determination, sex differentiation.
