PSY 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, Spatial Cognition, Adrenal Gland
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Chapter 3 combating the hostile forces of nature: human survival problems pg. 81-83: food (cont. , sex differences in spatial cognition, description of differences, adaptive hypotheses or just so stories, silverman & eals (1992) hypothesis, new et al. (2007, mechanisms of differentiation (prenatal testo) video of a persistence hunt: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=826hmloie_o. Sex differences in spatial cognition: over the past 100 years, sex differences in cognitive abilities have been well- documented, with some favoring men, and others favoring women. Caveats: (1) in most cognitive domains, there are no sex differences; (2) when there are sex differences, they are subtle, with substantial overlap. The best known and most robust findings are a female advantage in (some kinds of) verbal performance and a male advantage in (some kinds of) spatial cognition, especially mental rotation and route-learning: verbal performance. Females seem to especially excel at speech production tasks, such as making anagrams and generating synonyms.
