Module 41 (Unit 5 Part II)

Question 1

How do girls’ and boys’ intelligence test scores differ?

Answer 1

100.6 for girls, 100.5 for boys - so barely.

Question 2

What can other differences be noticed in?

Answer 2

Smaller categories

Question 3

What did Steven Pinker argue?

Answer 3

biology affects gender differences in life priorites, in risk-taking, and in math reasoning and spatial abilities.

Question 4

Aside from biological, what also influences gender?

Answer 4

social influences also construct gender

Question 5

What is the difference between Hereditary and Environmental influences?

Answer 5

Heredity contributes to individual differences in intelligence. Environment causes group differences in intelligence.

Question 6

What are the two types of bias?

Answer 6

1) sensitive to performance differences caused by cultural experience
2) “innapropriately biased” - a test predicts less accurately for one group than for another