Asch measured the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view. On average, about one third of the participants who were placed in this situation went along and conformed to the clearly incorrect majority on the test. Over the 12 critical trials about 75% of participants conformed at least once and 25% of participant never conformed. In the control group, with no pressure to conform to confederates, less than 1% of participants gave the wrong answer. This proved that people wanted to follow others even when the answer was obvious to be part of a social norm.
They studies 30 different countries, 2800 university students used as participants. There was a broad consensus in which males were dominant, aggressive and autonomous whereas woman were more nurturing, deferent and interested in making friends. Thus this indicates that biology is more dominant rather than culture. Conformity is another aspect when looking at gender, across cultures-general consensus that woman are more conformist than men. However this difference varies across cultures.
Men & women also have different approaches to diet and obesity, It is expected that by 2030 up to 48% of men and 43% of women will be obese.The life expectancy for men and women are certainly unequal as in 2010 in England the life expectancy of a man is 77.2 whilst the life expectancy for a women is 81.5, whereas in Scotland it is 74.6 and 79.6 for women which is significantly lower than that of England anyway. Location may have a huge impact on health as well as gender as men in the most deprived areas could die 11 years earlier than those who live in more affluent areas, whereas the gap between women is 7.5 years. Although women live longer than men, they suffer from more ill health. Certain groups of women suffer more ill health. Death rates from all cancers has fallen twice as fast for men than women.
Running Head: GENDER DIFFERENCES Gender Differences in Short-Term Memory SC-PNG-0000009299 Alwin Aanand Thomson American Degree Program SEGi College Penang Abstract Females have a stronger short-term memory than males. To test short-term memory, I created an experiment in which the subject would be asked to recall a list of ten terms. On average, females remembered a greater percentage of the terms than males. Women were more likely to come up with a creative way to remember the terms, revealing a better ability to adapt and respond to uncertainty. Men are often hired over women, and men make more money than women.
Your answer : b. The hemoglobin levels for these two individuals will be the same. Stop & Think Questions: Why is the average hematocrit higher in males than in females? You correctly answered: c. Higher testosterone levels in males promotes more RBC production. Experiment Data: Blood sample 1 2 3 4 5 gm Hb per 100 ml blood 16 14 8 20 22 Hematocrit (PCV) 48 44 40 60 60 Ratio of PCV to Hb 3:1 3.14:1 5:1 3:1 2.73:1 11/05/14 page 2 Post-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 3 out of 3 questions correctly.
Discuss gender differences in parental investment (24 marks) Parental investment is defined as "any investment by a parent in an offspring that increases the chance that the offspring will survive". There are several explanations of sex differences in parental investment. One is that that females typically invest more because they have already invested the most (Trivers, 1972). Females generally contribute a lot more to the physical development of children due to the burden of carrying them for nine months then the extensive breast feeding period afterwards. Buss (1989) found females select resource rich, ambitious men, supporting this idea and demonstrating how mate selection by females can enhance their parental investment by increasing the survival chances of their offspring.
Summers was shamed into apologizing but his analysis of why there might be fewer women in mathematics and science is common. There are at least three possible explanations as to why only 20 percent of women work in science, engineering, and technology the first being discrimination, discouragement, and other barriers. A second possibility is listed as gender disparities that arise in the absence of discrimination as long as men and women differ in talents. A third explanation is listed as that child-rearing does not easily co-exist with professions that demand such large commitments of time. Pinker warns us that overestimating the extent of sex discrimination is not without cost, because you may be falsely charged with sexism.
1. CALCIUM This may be the most important nutrient for an athlete. In a survey of more than 10,000 male and female athletes ages 7 to 50, fewer than half consumed 1,000 mg of calcium daily. [1] The recommended dietary intake ranges from 1,000 to 1,500 mg/day depending on age and gender. For female athletes, calcium intake is of particular concern.
Many of the children suffered cognitive deficits but this might have rather been a result of a lack of substantial intellectual stimulation within the institutions as opposed to privation. Also approximately only half of the Romanian orphans showed mental deficits from the start even though they had all come from the same institution. Perhaps the other half like the Koluchova twins had overcome privation by using each other as effective forms of substitute care replacing the role of an adult
The first study dealt with the perception of stereotypes from the first name in relation to age, intelligence, attractiveness and religiosity, which associates the interviewed subjects with this first name. The second study dealt with the emergence of timeless name. The third study was used to name the choice of their own children to explain and be explained by the occurrence of changes in the popularity of first names. On the basis of 60 German names (30 male and 30 female first names), which were divided into 3 groups (Modern, Old-fashioned and timeless) where there were 12 male and 12 female "modern" first name, selected from the 20 most popular names of 2004 6 male and 6 female "timeless" First name which between the years 1960 and 2004 in each decade (1960-1969, 1970-1979, etc.) at least twice among the most popular first names and were 12 male and 12