PSY 352 Study Guide - Final Guide: Big Five Personality Traits, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Culture Of The Southern United States
10 Dec 2016
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Chapter 16: sex, gender, and personality sex: being born male or female, biologically (reproductive system anatomy, secondary sex characteristics) gender: personal identification as male or female. Early indifference to sex differences in psychology: the psychology of sex differences (maccoby and jacklyn, 1974) Found many sex differences in prior studies. E. g. men higher mathematical, spatial rotation abilities. Began major wave of sex differences research. What are the advantages of doing a meta-analysis: be able to explain and interpret effect size (d). Large? meta-analysis: combining results across studies, looks for patterns in results. Typically compares studies" effect sizes effect size (d): measures group differences in standard deviations standard deviation: statistic that represents the average variability in a sample. If d = 1. 0 average group difference = 1 standard deviation. If d = 0. 50 average group difference = standard deviation. Assume for today that positive d score = men score higher than women.
