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• Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Should We Study Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities? Introduction and Overview
• Hot Issue in Contemporary Psychology
• Why Should We Study Cognitive Sex Differences?
• Theoretical Approaches
• Notion of Cognitive Abilities
• Values and Science
• Political and Social Ramifications
• Setting the Context: Some Statistics About Sex Differences
• Bugaboo of Biological Explanations
• Terminology
• Selective Nature of All Reviews
• About This Book
• 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
• 3. Empirical Evidence for Cognitive Sex Differences
• Intelligence
• When, Where, Who, and How of Differences
• Perception
• Cognitive Abilities Approach
• Memory
• Verbal Abilities
• Visuospatial Abilities
• Quantitative Abilities
• Thinking About the Magnitude of Differences
• Underlying Cognitive Processes
• Are Sex Differences Decreasing?
• Similarities
• Chapter Summary
• 4. Biological Hypotheses Part I: Genes and Hormones
• What Makes Us Female or Male?
• Notion of Biological Determination
• Behavioral Genetics
• Sex Hormones
• Chapter Summary
• 5. Biological Hypotheses Part II: Brains, Evolutionary Pressures, and Brain-Behavior Relationships
• Brief Introduction to the Brain
• Hormonal Influences on the Brain: A Developmental Perspective
• Environmental Influences on the Brain
• Cognitive Neuroscience: Brain-Behavior Relationships
• 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
• 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
• Sex-Linked Socialization Practices Through the Life Span
• Chapter Summary
• 7. Psychosocial Hypotheses Part II: Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding the Role of Psychosocial Variables
• Theory of Theories
• 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
• Comparison of the Theories
• Chapter Summary
• 8. Using a Biopsychosocial Perspective to Understand Cognitive Sex Differences
• Advice for "Pop"
• Cross-National Comparisons
• Changing Data, Changing Minds
• Biopsychosocial Perspective
• Public Policy Implications
• Into the Future
• Wisdom of Nesreddin Hoca.

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Author/Creator:

Halpern, Diane F.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Sex differences in cognitive abilities [by Halpern, D.F.]

Subjects:

Cognition

Cognition — Sex differences

Sex differences (Psychology)

Sex role

Genres:

Electronic book

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BF311 .H295 2012eb

ISBNs:

0203816536 (electronic bk.)
9780203816530 (electronic bk.)
9781848729407 (hbk, alk. paper) [Invalid]
1848729405 (hbk, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781848729414 (pbk.) [Invalid]
1848729413 (pbk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

782917897

Other Control Numbers:

EBC958143 (source: MiAaPQ)
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