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4 |
| Description |
1 online resource (481 p.) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities: Fourth Edition; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Why Should We Study Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities? Introduction and Overview; A Hot Issue in Contemporary Psychology; Why Should We Study Cognitive Sex Differences?; Theoretical Approaches; The Notion of Cognitive Abilities; Values and Science; Political and Social Ramifications; Setting the Context: Some Statistics About Sex Differences |
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The Bugaboo of Biological ExplanationsTerminology; Selective Nature of All Reviews; About This Book; Chapter 2: Searching for Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities; Why We Need Research; Types of Research Investigations; Validity, Fairness, and Bias; Understanding Research Results; Statistical and Practical Significance; Developmental Issues; Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; Evaluating Research Claims; Chapter 3: Empirical Evidence for Cognitive Sex Differences; Intelligence; The When, Where, Who, and How of Differences; Perception; A Cognitive Abilities Approach; Memory; Verbal Abilities |
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Visuospatial AbilitiesQuantitative Abilities; Thinking About the Magnitude of Differences; Underlying Cognitive Processes; Are Sex Differences Decreasing?; Similarities; Chapter Summary; Chapter 4: Biological Hypotheses Part I: Genes and Hormones; What Makes Us Female or Male?; The Notion of Biological Determination; Behavioral Genetics; Sex Hormones; Chapter Summary; Chapter 5: Biological Hypotheses Part II: Brains, Evolutionary Pressures, and Brain-Behavior Relationships; A Brief Introduction to the Brain; Hormonal Influences on the Brain: A Developmental Perspective |
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Environmental Influences on the BrainCognitive Neuroscience: Brain-Behavior Relationships; The Sexually Dimorphic Brain; Sexual Dimorphism in Hemispheric Specialization; Essentializing the Differences in Female and Male Brains; Sexual Orientation and the Brain; Critique of Biological Hypotheses; Chapter Summary; Chapter 6: Psychosocial Hypotheses Part I: Sex Role Stereotypes Throughout the Life Span; Gender as a Social Construction; Sex Roles and Sex Role Stereotypes; How Stereotypes Direct and Reflect Reality; Reducing (Maybe Even Eliminating) Sex Role Stereotypes |
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Sex-Linked Socialization Practices Through the Life SpanChapter Summary; Chapter 7: Psychosocial Hypotheses Part II: Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding the Role of Psychosocial Variables; A Theory of Theories; The Psychoanalytic Perspective; Learning Theories; Social Learning Theory; Social Ecology; Cognitive Theories; Roles of Expectancy-Values-Motives in Achievement Motivation; Bent Twigs; Culture Counts: Surprising and Contradictory Effects of Gender Equity; Work-Family Conflict: The Caregiving Demands of Adult Life; Performance and Strategy Variables; A Comparison of the Theories |
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Chapter Summary |
| Summary |
This book critically examines research on the controversial topic of sex differences in cognitive abilities, with the aim of understanding where sex differences are found and where they are not. It can be used as a textbook, and also informs parents, teachers, and policymakers about the ways in the sexes are different and similar. |
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Access restricted to 3 concurrent users only. |
| Subject |
Cognition. |
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Cognition. |
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Sex differences (Psychology). |
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Sex role. |
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Sex role. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Halpern, Diane F. Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities : 4th Edition Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,c2013 9781848729407 |
| ISBN |
9780203816530 175.00 (TX) |
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