PSC 140 Lecture Notes - Gender Role, Relational Aggression, Spatial Ability
Document Summary
Gender and development: gender and development, sex is biological. Behavior: knowledge about gender stereotypes, what are our beliefs about the differences between males and females, are boys really different, physical development. Boys excel at tasks that require strength, but girls do better on tasks that require fine-motor coordination. Beginning in infancy, boys are more active than girls. Girls have larger vocabularies; they also read, write, and spell better. Boys are better on mental-rotation tasks and in determining relations between objects in space. Boys get higher scores in standardized tests, but primarily in countries where girls have limited educational and career opportunities: personality and social behavior. Boys are more aggressive physically; girls rely more on relational aggression. Girls are better able to identify and express emotions. Because girls value group harmony more than boys do, girls are more susceptible to others" influence. Beginning in adolescence, girls are more prone to depression than boys: math abilities, on standardized math tests:
