SOCI 118 Lecture 7: Lecture Seven_ 01_25_19
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New task without previous social conditioning: put together 4 puzzle pieces in to image of horse. Men take less time than women. In both societies, those with more education are faster. Joel (optional readings) reviews well documented literature on sex differences in. Composition (neurons, neurotransmitter content, morphology of dendrites, Daphna joel, psychology professor number of receptors, etc. ) Despite cultural beliefs that there are 2 opposite and fundamentally different genders and gendered brains, there are actually very few brain characteristics that are sexually dimorphic. Most brain regions and structures involved in behavior, emotion, cognition, and behavior show overlap between the distributions of the two sexes. Any individual may have the female or male form or both. Brain imaging in humans and experiments on animals show that sex difference in brain structure can be created, exaggerated or reveresed by manipulations (tasks, stress, drugs, handling) Sex interacts w other factors to determine the structure of the brain.
