PS287 Lecture 5: Ch 5 Sex Related Comparisons.docx
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Hormones: estrogens: female sex hormones, androgens: male sex hormones, studies of females with prenatal androgen exposure (cah; an intersex condition) show enhanced spatial skills and a lot of male gender role behaviour (not all intersex females show male gender role behaviour, girls tend to have low androgens and boys have high androgens, find that cah girls that have increased exposure to androgens have the highest spatial skills (higher than girls, boys and cah boys, boys have too high of androgens pushing them over the highest point of spatial skills and lowering their spatial skills (normal distribution with cah girls at the highest point, some link between hormones and spatial ability, most people have both hormones (just different levels of each, most human studies are correlational, cannot assume causality, recent studies started to manipulate testosterone, gave tests, women improved on spatial task, gave test, males were more aggressive in an economics game .
