PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cuesta, Arkansas Highway 7, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
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Reproductive organs: males have penis, and females have a vagina. More likely to be miscarried or having. Larger lungs and heart atypical development (i. e. , autism) Extend to which brain function is organized across the two cerebral hemispheres. Females have language centers on both sides of the brain: brain connectivity . Most connections run between the front and back parts of the same brain hemisphere which would. Men: better at manipulating objects, constructing 3-d forms, mentally mapping complex. Women: tend to write and speak earlier superior verbal abilities in early school years. Men tend to use more direct forms of aggression, females more indirect. Girls tend to be more nurturing to young children. Girls more compliant to demands of parents and other adults, boys are more variable. Stereotypical gender roles: females passive, loving sensitive, males independent, assertive, dominant, competitive. Gender typing the process by which children acquire the values, motives, and behaviors considered appropriate for their gender (in their particular culture)
