PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Meta-Analysis, Stereotype Threat
11 Apr 2013
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Chapter 5 gender comparisons in cognitive abilities and attitudes about achievements. Almost all research on cognitive abilities is on college students. Researchers who expect to find gender differences will find them, and the participants also have expectations about cognitive gender differences. Researchers seldom find gender differences in all situations. The cognitive gender differences are not large enough to be relevant for a person"s career choice. Cognitive abilities that show no consistent gender differences: general intelligence. However, male scores show more variability: complex cognitive tasks, memory ability. They are generally the same in memory ability. However, women tend to be accurate than men in remembering events from their own lives and in recognizing faces. Women generally earn somewhat higher scores on memory tests for words, life events, faces and objects: verbal ability. Research shows genders similarities in language skills, however females seem to be somewhat better at verbal fluency: mathematical ability. Males and females ability show gender similarities: spatial visualization.
