PSYCH 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: David Reimer, Gender Dysphoria, Elizabeth Spelke
14 Apr 2016
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1971 to 18% in 2004: he added two other possibilities. Women want children and therefore don"t put in the 80 hour week that would make them competitive with their male peers. Discrimination discourages women from pursuing science and engineering past their undergraduate education: debating the science of sex differences. Average iq is exactly the same between men and women but more males at higher and lower extremes. Verbal: femlaes have better fluency, vocab articulation, writing. Spatial: females better with surface layout, males better mental rotation & navigation: gender difference caveats. Hormones? (there is no real definition for this: gender: the behavioral, cultural or psychological traits typically associated with one sex. Reminder biological sex: all human fetuses can develop either male or female genitalia depending on the presence or absence of testosterone. Active child: the themselves generate the testosterone at week. Tell him no, that barrettes are for girls and he will get teased.
