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Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities.
The fourth edition of Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities critically examines the breadth of research on this complex and controversial topic, with the principal aim of helping the reader to understand where sex differences are found -- and where they are not. Since the publication of the third e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities: Fourth Edition; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Why Should We Study Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities? Introduction and Overview; A Hot Issue in Contemporary Psychology; Why Should We Study Cognitive Sex Differences?; Theoretical Approaches; The Notion of Cognitive Abilities; Values and Science; Political and Social Ramifications; Setting the Context: Some Statistics About Sex Differences.
- The Bugaboo of Biological ExplanationsTerminology; Selective Nature of All Reviews; About This Book; Chapter 2: Searching for Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities; Why We Need Research; Types of Research Investigations; Validity, Fairness, and Bias; Understanding Research Results; Statistical and Practical Significance; Developmental Issues; Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; Evaluating Research Claims; Chapter 3: Empirical Evidence for Cognitive Sex Differences; Intelligence; The When, Where, Who, and How of Differences; Perception; A Cognitive Abilities Approach; Memory; Verbal Abilities.
- Visuospatial AbilitiesQuantitative Abilities; Thinking About the Magnitude of Differences; Underlying Cognitive Processes; Are Sex Differences Decreasing?; Similarities; Chapter Summary; Chapter 4: Biological Hypotheses Part I: Genes and Hormones; What Makes Us Female or Male?; The Notion of Biological Determination; Behavioral Genetics; Sex Hormones; Chapter Summary; Chapter 5: Biological Hypotheses Part II: Brains, Evolutionary Pressures, and Brain-Behavior Relationships; A Brief Introduction to the Brain; Hormonal Influences on the Brain: A Developmental Perspective.
- Environmental Influences on the BrainCognitive Neuroscience: Brain-Behavior Relationships; The Sexually Dimorphic Brain; Sexual Dimorphism in Hemispheric Specialization; Essentializing the Differences in Female and Male Brains; Sexual Orientation and the Brain; Critique of Biological Hypotheses; Chapter Summary; Chapter 6: Psychosocial Hypotheses Part I: Sex Role Stereotypes Throughout the Life Span; Gender as a Social Construction; Sex Roles and Sex Role Stereotypes; How Stereotypes Direct and Reflect Reality; Reducing (Maybe Even Eliminating) Sex Role Stereotypes.
- Sex-Linked Socialization Practices Through the Life SpanChapter Summary; Chapter 7: Psychosocial Hypotheses Part II: Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding the Role of Psychosocial Variables; A Theory of Theories; The Psychoanalytic Perspective; Learning Theories; Social Learning Theory; Social Ecology; Cognitive Theories; Roles of Expectancy-Values-Motives in Achievement Motivation; Bent Twigs; Culture Counts: Surprising and Contradictory Effects of Gender Equity; Work-Family Conflict: The Caregiving Demands of Adult Life; Performance and Strategy Variables; A Comparison of the Theories.