ANTH-110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Disorder, Learning Disability, Sat
9 Aug 2016
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Thinking critically about research on sex and gender. Note: these review questions are not graded but rather are designed to help you pull out the pertinent information in each reading and to reinforce your learning. Chapter 2: a brief historical perspective on sex-difference research, (pp. Two dangerous assumptions regarding sex difference research are: that women are intellectually inferior, and that women could devote their energies exclusively to bearing and raising children. Until recently, most research has been done with the aim of trying to document sex differences. The assumption behind the investigation of why women are intellectually inferior to women was that women"s brains were smaller than men"s. Later, scientists speculated there was a difference in the size of one part of the brain. It was argued that sex difference was necessary for the survival of the species, so that women"s energy could go into bearing and raising children, whereas men do not.
