PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Reading Disability, Meta-Analysis, Spatial Ability

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

There can be lots of biases when doing research on gender comparisons. Also have to be cautious when interpreting the results: biased samples can influence results- studies on cognitive individuals is only conducted on white men and women. But we can make them disappear by testing certain kinds of people or just looking at particular situations: the cognitive gender differences aren"t large enough to be relevant for a persons career choice- The meta analysis approach to summarizing multiple studies: When you want to obtain an overview of a certain topic, pychologists will review all the research that pertains to the studies of that topic. We get the effect size from this. Now we will look at where there are gender differences in cognitive abilities for: memory, verbal ability, mathematics ability and spatial ability. Cognitive abilities that show no consistent gender differences: Males and female are similar in general intelligence. The iq tests are made to eliminate gender differences.