Nursing 168: Cognition and Gender Questions With
Complete Solutions
Adrenaline Correct Answers Short term release hormone and is
released when there is acute stress. Males quickly learns/density
of dendritic "spines"
Amygdala- emotional learning HELPS what side(s) of the brain
in females? Correct Answers sometimes helps both sides of
brain
Amygdala- emotional learning HINDERS what side(s) of the
brain in males? Correct Answers sometimes hinders R side of
the brain in males
Anatomical brain differences Correct Answers well
established, yet to associate these firmly with cognitive sex
differences
Are boys and girls similar or different in school? Correct
Answers While the boys require more attention from the
teachers and their peers, girls are more self-conscious, requiring
less attention. The more attention that boys get from their
teachers causes them to get a better education than girls because
girls are more at unease with themselves.
Are boys or girls better at cross sectional samples of completing
tasks such as assessing episodic memory, facial recognition,
verbal fluency, and mental rotations? Correct Answers
FEMALES (m=85 f=102)
, Are cognitive sex differences magnified by individual
differences in age, sex hormones, or puberty development?
Correct Answers No- differences are not magnified as a
function of age, sex hormones, or puberty development during
early adolescence
Are there significant or significant sex differences in aging of
brain areas that are essential to higher or lower cognitive
functioning? Correct Answers significant/higher
Behavior of children who attend same sex schools Correct
Answers better behavior and fewer referrals. Reliance on
different brain areas for accurate language performance suggests
boys+girls process lang differently
bell shaped curve Correct Answers changes mostly on
extremes (either side of curve rather than middle)
Both of these act in hippocampus and amygdala Correct
Answers glucocorticoids and adrenaline
Boys in all boys schools most likely to study what Correct
Answers foreign lang, art, music, and drama
Boys learning strengths Correct Answers While boys are
lagging behind girls on writing assignments, they are often
ahead in math and science.
Brain injury and disease is a response to what? Correct Answers
age-sex differences in human cognition
Complete Solutions
Adrenaline Correct Answers Short term release hormone and is
released when there is acute stress. Males quickly learns/density
of dendritic "spines"
Amygdala- emotional learning HELPS what side(s) of the brain
in females? Correct Answers sometimes helps both sides of
brain
Amygdala- emotional learning HINDERS what side(s) of the
brain in males? Correct Answers sometimes hinders R side of
the brain in males
Anatomical brain differences Correct Answers well
established, yet to associate these firmly with cognitive sex
differences
Are boys and girls similar or different in school? Correct
Answers While the boys require more attention from the
teachers and their peers, girls are more self-conscious, requiring
less attention. The more attention that boys get from their
teachers causes them to get a better education than girls because
girls are more at unease with themselves.
Are boys or girls better at cross sectional samples of completing
tasks such as assessing episodic memory, facial recognition,
verbal fluency, and mental rotations? Correct Answers
FEMALES (m=85 f=102)
, Are cognitive sex differences magnified by individual
differences in age, sex hormones, or puberty development?
Correct Answers No- differences are not magnified as a
function of age, sex hormones, or puberty development during
early adolescence
Are there significant or significant sex differences in aging of
brain areas that are essential to higher or lower cognitive
functioning? Correct Answers significant/higher
Behavior of children who attend same sex schools Correct
Answers better behavior and fewer referrals. Reliance on
different brain areas for accurate language performance suggests
boys+girls process lang differently
bell shaped curve Correct Answers changes mostly on
extremes (either side of curve rather than middle)
Both of these act in hippocampus and amygdala Correct
Answers glucocorticoids and adrenaline
Boys in all boys schools most likely to study what Correct
Answers foreign lang, art, music, and drama
Boys learning strengths Correct Answers While boys are
lagging behind girls on writing assignments, they are often
ahead in math and science.
Brain injury and disease is a response to what? Correct Answers
age-sex differences in human cognition
