PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Reading Disability, Word Association, Motivation
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Chapter 5 gender comparisons in cognitive abilities and attitudes about achievements. Box-score (counting) approach: read studied and draw conclusions based on outcome tally ambiguous tallies and researcher can come to different conclusions based on interpretation. Meta-analysis: statistical method for combining many studies on one topic, calculates size of overall difference between two groups, yields effects size (d) Cognitive abilities that show no consistent gender differences. Complex cognitive tasks and general intelligence are similar iq scores are similar and more (cid:448)aria(cid:271)le (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) (cid:373)e(cid:374). Not a better learning environment for either gender cooperatives (girls) vs competitive (boys) Women generally score higher and are more accurate remembering events from their lives, better at recognizing faces, remembering details about hair, clothing, and remembering objects. General verbal ability: similar in spelling, vocab, word association, reading comp, learning second language. Women better at verbal fluency or naming objects that meet certain criteria.
