PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Meta-Analysis, Spatial Ability, Intelligence Quotient
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Cautions about research on gender comparisons: five specific cautions for conducting research about women or gender comparisons, 1. People"s expectations can influence results researchers who expect to find gender differences will tend to find them: the participants also have expectations about cognitive gender differences, 3. The cognitive gender differences are not large enough to have a major influence on a person"s career choice: we can conclude that the gender difference in spatial skills might partially explain the relative absence of women in engineering. Researchers first try to locate all appropriate studies on the topic. Cognitive abilities: examine some areas that show gender similarities, and then focus on the four kinds of cognitive abilities that portray gender differences: (1) memory, (2) verbal ability, (3) mathematics ability, and (4) spatial ability. Cognitive abilities that show no consistent gender differences. Psychology of women chapter 5: gender comparisons in cognitive abilities and attitudes about achievements 2: two gender similarities.