PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Histrionic Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Document Summary
The aspect of spatial reasoning where participants have to mentally rotate a figure, is one of the largest gender differences in cognitive ability (men are better than women) Differences in mental rotation can be seen in infants as young as 3-5 months of age. Beliefs about personality similarities and differences between men and women. Communal: women are concerned with other people and the social group, being interdependent, and feeling connected with others and with the group. Agency: men focus on the individual and feelings of self-protection and self-assertion. Effect size: the impact or importance of a variable to the overall observed effect. The effect size d is calculated as a ration of difference between genders compared to individual variability within a gender. The results of the many effect size analyses summarized suggests that men and women are the most different when it comes to physical attributes such as height and strength.
