PSYC 3480 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mental Rotation, Stereotype Threat, Nonverbal Communication
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Discuss both biological and environmental factors that may contribute to gender. Boys show higher lvls of physical aggression than girls across age, socioeconomic class, and culture. Girls show higher relational aggression than boys. Due to: biological: testosterone, environmental: adults less tolerant of phys aggression in girls than boys. In group pressure conformity studies, females appear to be somewhat more influenced than males. Females socialized to yield to social influence, amles socialized to wield social influence. Individuals w/ lower class tend to conform to those with higher social class. Males show higher lvl of moral reasoning based on justice. Females show higher lvl ofmoral reasoning based on caring. Results vary across studies or theres only slight gender differences. Moral reasoning is more dependent on context of situation than on gender. Discuss gender differences in verbal communication, and give possible explanations. Talkativeness stereotype is that women talk more but research shows men talk more, speak more frequently, and speak for longer.
