PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes -Faraday Effect, Motivation, Mental Rotation
30 Sep 2013
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Chapter 5- gender comparisons in cognitive abilities and attitudes about. Article titled he thinks, she thinks, by marsa (2007), in discover magazine. The article emphasizes that societal factors cannot explain gender differences. Instead, marsa claims, our brains are hardwired differently, and these anatomical variations in architecture and function illuminate some of the reasons why men and women seem to come from different planets . From theme 1 of textbook, when people who are not experts discuss gender comparisons in thinking, they almost always emphasize gender differences and ignore the substantial evidence for gender similarities. Furthermore, people who are not experts typically highlight biological explanations for the small number of comparisons that reveal significant gender differences cultural explanations play a very important role in accounting for gender differences. Cautions about research in gender comparisons: biased samples can influence results. Almost all the research on cognitive abilities focuses on college students, so this research is not representative of the general population.
