PSY354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homicide, Autopsy, Premarital Sex
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Feelings, perception, reflects some aspects of your biology, also captures some societal values that are being placed on you. Entire collection of traits- think of being typical of male or female. Those individuals who are predominantly attracted to female or males. Anatomical sex does not always correspond to gender identity. Certain cultures recognize the presence of a third culture. Transgendered- anatomy of one sex but identity with the other sex. Transsexual- so strongly about their sense of gender and being diff from who they biologically are, means to change their appearance. Men and women differ in a variety of cognitive and personality traits. Look at feature on left hand side and using 4 options try to match them up (its the first one) Men tend to perform slightly better on mental rotation tasks than women. Differences in age groups -getting worse with age in both males and females.
