The brain is a truly complicated part of the body. The brain controls your movements and your ability to remember information. What the brain is best at depends on the gender of the person. Females tend to have superior long term memory and males are superior with remembering visuospatial processing (Science Daily). Male brains are larger than the females due to the brain growing in proportion to the person's height. Even though there are many distinctions between the two genders there are some similarities. Many studies have shown that as you age your brain changes with age. There are many differences between the brains of males and females, there are over one hundred gender variations in the brain (Psychology Today). These contrasts include …show more content…
For women the hippocampus is larger this means women have a larger memory center. Women also have a higher density of neural connections going into the hippocampus. These connections help women be more intuned with sensorial and emotive information. Females have a better sense of what is going on around them throughout the day. The right and left hemispheres of the brain are not setup the same in the different gender brains. Men only have one verbal center which is located in the left hemisphere, females have a verbal center in each hemisphere and this leads to women describing stories and items with more words (Psychology Today). Due to the two verbal centers in female brains when have much stronger verbal skills. Males cells are able to transmit nerve impulse up to four percent more quickly than females. Female brains tend to have about fifteen percent more brain cells in the frontal lobe, however women shed these cells more quickly. Brain cells control judgement, personality, planning, and working memory (Memory Key). Brain activity and blood flow are in a category together. Male brains tend to have less connectivity between the word centers and their memories and feelings. Women have advantages when it comes to discussing feelings, emotions, and sense. Females also are more likely to be interested in discussing feelings and emotions. There …show more content…
These pictures were in black and white, hairless, and androgynous face. Females were found to remember the faces in the picture if they were told the person in the picture was a female (Science Daily). In a test scientist have found that males are more likely to pursue and science or math career and females are much better readers. Also a test done with preschoolers showed that the males preferred vovalbulart sub-skills which is for comprehension and females preferred phonic sub-skills and fluency which is for the mechanics of reading (Memory
Both male and female brains are different and extends into a difference of what they can
...ignificant evidence for my research argument indicates that the nature of gender/sex consists of a wide consensus. The latter is significant to original sex differences in brain structure and the organized role through sex differential prenatal hormone exposures through the term used in the article as (the ‘hardwiring’ paradigm). The article is limited to scientific shortcoming that presents neuroscientific research on sex and gender for it lacks an analysis that goes beyond the observed results. The article is based on neuroscience studies and how it approached gender, yet the article suggests that gender should be examined through social, culture studies, ethnicity and race. This article will not form the foundation of my research but will be used a secondary material. The neuroscience evidences will be used to support my argument and will be used as an example.
Women's Brain When you look at the dictionary, the definition of 'Science' is "a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws" (Webster's dictionary). In order to make a truth, many scientists take the time to observe or test with scientific methods. In the nineteenth century, there are some incorrect truths, even if it looks like truths logically arranged by scientific method, because the scientists understood the priori that already assumed the outcome would be the same as their predictions. As I read Stephen Jay Gould's argument from "Women's Brains", he found some unequal conditions that supported scientific method for intelligence of man. Paul Broca tried to measure the inferiority of women with scientific criteria that were invidious comparisons such as races, classes, and sexes.
From the very beginning of life boys and girls are already different. The common topic of discussion is which gender’s brain matures faster. People often hear that girls mature much faster than boys. In fact this is not true; the genders don’t really play a part in the maturation process, because it is all about what you are exposed to in life. Although research has shown girls to have way more verbal skills through the preschool stages, but it then declines drastically around age seven . Girls have also been proven to do better than boys in reading and writing all the way through high school. Most of these studies were done in co-ed schools. Studies have shown that single gender schools are more helpful for both genders. The statistics were basically the same from these types of schools. I do think your brain matures faster based of the things you are exposed to. When these say research was done globally, the statistics varied, some siding with girls and some in favor with boys. So this proves, that there is a real gender difference, but there is not a proven gender maturation rate in the brain.
Connell: Chapter 4 “Sex Differences & Gendered Bodies”: I found this entire chapter quite intriguing, but I really appreciate the way that Connell approaches the ways in which males and females differ, and yet she also points out how there is no significant difference in brain anatomy and function between sexes. I found the statement by neuroscientist Lesley Rogers incredibly interesting, she states, “The brain does not choose to be wither a female or a male type. In any aspect of brain function that we can measure, there is considerable overlap between females and males” (p.52). This statement when paired with information about the affect social processes have on the body is mind boggling to realize, as Connell states, “biology bends to the hurricane of social discipline” (p.55). It is unnerving to think that I am merely a product of my society.
Introduction The topic of gender differences must understandably be approached with caution in our modern world. Emotionally charged and fraught with ideas about political correctness, gender can be a difficult subject to address, particularly when discussed in correlation to behavior and social behavior. Throughout history, many people have strove to understand what makes men and women different. Until the modern era, this topic was generally left up to religious leaders and philosophers to discuss. However, with the acquisition of more specialized medical knowledge of human physiology and the advent of anthropology, we now know a great deal more about gender differences than at any other point in history.
Although, there is proof of cognitive and mental variations in the way that two genders process information. For example, women are shown to be more adept at verbal communication and comprehension while men tend to perform better in the visual-spatial category. On the topic of memory, studies show that women are more sensory and memory oriented. In one study at the University of Edinburgh, psychologist Stuart Ritchie and a team of researchers compared data from many different male and female subjects. As Micheal Price states, “Adjusting for age, on average, they found that women tended to have significantly thicker cortices than men. Thicker cortices have been associated with higher scores on a variety of cognitive and general intelligence tests. Meanwhile, men had higher brain volumes than women in every subcortical region they looked at, including the hippocampus (which plays broad roles in memory and spatial awareness), the amygdala (emotions, memory, and decision-making), striatum (learning, inhibition, and reward-processing), and thalamus (processing and relaying sensory information to other parts of the brain).” (Price 2017). So indeed there are differences, however the similarities between genders far outweigh the differences. McGraw-Hill Higher Education argues that “More equivocal are gender differences in activity level, dependency, timidity, exploratory activity, and vulnerability to stress. There are no gender differences in sociability, conformity, achievement, self-esteem, or verbal hostility (Child Psychology).” In turn proving many once believed facts such as “women and men communicate differently, it's biology” into preconceived
The same concept was expressed by Edward O. Wilson (1992), father of sociobiology at Harvard University. According to him, females tend to be better equipped in characteristics like verbal and social skills, security needs and empathy than their counterpart. In the other, Males tend to be better in spatial ...
It is proven that the male and female brains differ, but can one prove that it affects the behavior? Many scientists would agree that ones behavior is determined by his/her gender. Although others are convinced that social conditioning is the cause for the differences between the male and female, it is very unlikely that biological differences play no role in behavior. The male and female brains differ not only by how they work, but also on the size. For example, Natalie Angier and Kenneth Chang, neuroscientists, have shown that the women’s brain is about 10 percent smaller than the male’s, on average, even after accounting for women’s comparatively smaller body size. Three brain differences that affect ones behavior are the limbic size, the corpus collosum size, and the amount of gray and white matter.
In many cultures around the world, males are encouraged to be self-assertive and to be able to manage their emotions. Girls on the other hand are encouraged to be social in order to express concern for others and to control their assertiveness. Girls tend to develop faster than boys in their language development. Gender differences on short-term memory tasks focus on differences in strategy use and the difference in women’s adaptation to tasks that require efficient retention of sequences (Kimura, 1999). Males tend to prefer action...
The physical differences between males and females are pretty obvious. Males have deeper voices, more hair, and usually big bodies. Females are more petite, have softer voices, and less testosterone. In addition, both males and females have very different sex organs. Both genders think and learn differently in many ways. Everyone has a left and a right side of their brains, but some are more dominant to one side or the other. Males usually think more spatial or mathematical about things, where as, females are better at understanding language and social subjects. When we act out in behavior the difference between sexes is quite amazing. Testosterone greatly affects our personality and behaviors. The more testosterone may make someone break out in aggression or be different in how we
It is the most important part of the body, because without a brain, none of us would be alive. In the brain, there are the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem. The cerebrum holds memories, controls movement, and does problem solving and thinking. It is the biggest part of your brain. The cerebellum is underneath the cerebrum and controls coordination and balance.
According to Eagley, Wood, and Fishbaugh (1981), women are more concerned than men about the quality of interpersonal relationships. Women take greater responsibility for establishing and maintaining interpersonal bonds, whereas men do not. Also, women are more empathetic and more accurate at decoding nonverbal communication than males. Male gender roles also claim that men should remain independent and not agree closely with others, while it is seen as acceptable for women to conform to group behaviors.
The area at the front of the brain is the largest. Most of it is known as the cerebrum. It controls all of the movements that you have to think about, thought and memory.
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