PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nonverbal Communication, Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation, Stereotype Threat
14 Feb 2017
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The psychology of women: intelligence and cognitive abilities. The prevailing view during the 19th and 20th centuries was that women were not as intelligent as men. In 1916, terman adapts stanford-binet intelligence test for use in the u. s: found no gender differences, contrasted the societal assumption of women"s intellectual inferiority. Wechsler"s tests of intelligence assess a range of abilities: women score higher on verbal subtests (information, arithmetic, vocabulary, comprehension, men score higher on performance subtests (visual-motor skills, memory/visual detail, etc. ) Includes a variety of tests related to language, reading, and writing. Females" advantage in writing performance is larger. Complex pattern of ndings: before age 13, girls have a slight disadvantage, by age 13, boys have a slight advantage. Standardized tests (i. e. sat, gre) may exhibit testing bias. Girls and boys have different attitudes towards math: girls see math as less important to their future, feel less con dent about math ability, receive less encouragement from parents and teachers.
