PSY354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Casual Sex, Behavioral Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy Of Arts And Sciences
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Identify a topic in the biopsychology of sex. Select 3 research areas related to that topic: i. e. , role of hormones in fertility focus on a specific aspect, try and use primary research articles (avoid using review papers, use pubmed or google scholar. What exactly is gender : some traits are highly gendered (i. e. , sexual anatomy). Gender identity: transsexual and transgendered people are an exception as these individuals experience discordance between their biological sex and gender identity. For the most people, gender role is the expression of gender identity. Gender identity may be discordant with anatomical sex. Anatomical sex is does not always correspond to gender identity: transgendered, transsexual individual. There is more to one"s sense of gender identity than simple genital sex. Men and women differ in a variety of cognitive and personality traits. Spatial rotation task males outperform females on this task. Test of object location memory females outperform males on this task.
