| Третичные половые признаки. |
Feb. 18th, 2010|02:30 am |
Some of the key findings are that (as a group) women are superior to men on:
(a) language tasks (such as the Verbal Fluency Task - eg: list as many words as you can, beginning with the letter ‘L’). Females also show a faster rate of language development, and a lower risk for specific language impairment.
(b) tests of social judgement;
(c) measures of empathy and cooperation ;
(d) rapid identification of matching items ;
(e) ideational fluency (eg: list as many things as you can that are the same colour;
(f) fine-motor coordination (eg: placing pegs in pegboard holes;
(g) mathematical calculation tests;
(h) pretend play in childhood .
In contrast, men (as a group) are superior to women on:
(i) mathematical reasoning, especially geometry and mathematical word problems... Benbow and Stanley for example reports that at high-level mathematics, the male-female ratio is 13:1;
(ii) the Embedded Figures Task (ie: finding a part within a whole).
(iii) the Mental Rotation Task (ie: imagining how an object will look when it is rotated, or how a sheet of paper will look when it is folded;
(iv) some (but not all4) spatial skills - mostly Euclidean geometric navigation. Spatial superiority in males is even found in childhood.
(v) target-directed motor skills, such as guiding or intercepting projectiles - irrespective
of the amount of practice.
http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/docs/papers/1999_BC_extrememalebrain.pdf |
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