Therefore there is reason to believe that genes may not affect gender development that much as there are a lot of people nowadays who are transgender. However, hormones can also have an effect on gender development. Case studies such as the Batista family show that hormones can have a huge effect on gender development as Imperato-Mcginley et al, found that four children in Dominica were born with female genitalia and were raised as girls, but they produced large amounts of testosterone at puberty and
Gilligan also felt that Erikson had a male bias in his study. She felt that is was her duty to prove that women weren’t just “moral midgets” and had similar mental development stages as privileged white men. Erikson was first to propose that children were more than just simple biological organisms, but also products of their environment. Erikson believed that humans develop throughout their entire life. He believed that there are eight main stages that a human must go through in order to be mentally healthy.
Discuss the nature-nurture debate in relation to Demi Lovato Key principles Nature - is the inherited or innate characteristics, features or qualities of an individual. This side of the nature-nurture debate suggests that we are a certain way because of the genes we gain from our parents. Nurture - is how the surroundings on an individual affect them, e.g. their environmental influences and conditions. This side of the nature-nurture debate suggests that we are a certain way because of the way we were bought up and our life experiences.
Despite the fact that girls do better than boys at school, boys have higher expectations and higher self esteem than girls, a gap that continues with each year of schooling. Does this finding conform with your own experience? How would you explain this? 4. Make up two lists—what women can do to prevent rape and what men can do.
Men are often hired over women, and men make more money than women. Fewer women work in the fields of math and science than men. While females may not work in the math and science fields or make as much money as men in other fields, through this study, females proved to be just as capable as males, in fact, more so, in the ability to retain information. Because of short- term memory’s relation to spatial, logical, and working memory this experiment proves to be a significant study in hopefully breaking down gender barriers in the work force. Gender Differences in Short-Term Memory Comparing males and females is a natural occurrence: it occurs in the work force as well as in everyday happenings.
David Buss (1989) conducted a cross cultural study looking at partner preferences in both genders, data was collected from a total of 4,601 men and 5,446 women aged between 18 and 28. Buss found a difference between the qualities a male seeks in a women and the qualities a women seeks in a male, the male looks for physical attractiveness in a women whereas the women is more interested in the financial capacity of their potential partners and qualities such as success, ambition and industriousness, Buss’ findings support the idea that women are primarily interested in resources and men in spreading their genetics. David Buss’ research was cross-cultural which eliminates cultural bias and allows Buss’ research to be more valid. Bailey and Zucker (1995) found that both gay and straight males showed large interest in the attractiveness of their partners and were un-interested in their financial status. men and women also show differences in reproductive behaviours.
The higher the concordance rate the higher the disorder. In 2001 Torrey found out in a study that mothers of schizophrenic children were found to have certain strains of influenza in their womb, while they were pregnant. Because the mothers had these certain strains of influenza in their womb while they were pregnant, the strains of influenza were able to enter into the unborn baby’s brain. There are certain genes that can lead to abnormal biochemistry or neuroanatomy. Our genes give our body instructions e.g.
Michael Rucker sates in his article “9 Differenced Between the Male and Female Brain” that “Many men are sharply left-brain dominant, while women tend to be more evenly balanced between left and right-brain processing. Women are therefore thought to be slightly more intuitive, and sometimes better communicators. Men are often less socially adept, and are more task-oriented thinkers than females.” (Rucker). Young boys can be rough because of testosterone but they tend to overthink their actions and decide on the “‘fight or flight’” reaction and coming from someone who is young, I can vouch for this. Females, on the other hand, follow their gut feelings and their “female intuition” and employ the “‘tend or befriend’” strategy.
The right hemisphere is believed to process the central aspects of a situation, and the left the finer details. This was verified by giving the volunteers propranolol, a beta-blocker which dampens activation of the amygdala and weakens recall of emotionally arousing memories. Men then found it harder to remember the gist of the films, and women found it harder to recall details. A hemispheric difference in electrical response to emotional material can be detected in the sexes at 300 milliseconds, long before they have time to interpret what they have seen. These discoveries may have implications for the treatment of stress and mental disorders (Cahill).
That is, men and women, as well as boys and girls, are more alike than they are different” (Hyde, 2005, p. 581). To prove her hypothesis she focused on specific categories for possible similarities such as, cognitive variables, nonverbal and verbal communication, social and personality variables, psychological well-being, motor behaviors, and moral reasoning. My opinion of gender, prior to reading the article, men and women are far more different than others tend to want to believe. Women tend to be more driven by their emotions whereas men are driven more on their skills to problem solve and physical capabilities. That is not to say that there is not a sense of equality, but based on my personal observations a female has the tendency to be more capable of carrying out and following through with tasks more than a man.