Cognitive Abilities of Gender..I hope it will help someone..

1. COGNITIVE
ABILITIES OF
GENDER
P R E S E N T E D B Y S I D R A A F Z A L
N O S H E E N M U S H T A Q

4. DEFINITION OF COGNITION
 The inner mental processes
of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning,
and judgment.
 That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or
intuition; knowledge.
 This process is also called Cognition

5. EMOTIONS
 Men tend to have larger Amygdala.
 Amygdala is the integrative center for emotions, emotional behavior,
and motivation
Such differences are small and highly influenced by the environment,
yet they have still been used to paint a binary picture of the human
brain.
Eliot neuroscientist at Chicago Medical school

7. PROCESSING INFORMATION
 Men brain contains more Grey matter (the dark, knobby tissue that
contains the core of nerve cells)
 Female brain contains more white matter (the bundles of nerve fibers
that transmit signals around the nervous system)
Daphna Joel, a behavioral neuroscientist at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

9. ULTIMATE
COGNITIVE
DIFFERENCESP S Y C H O L O G I C A L A N D S O C I E T A L

10. 1. WOMEN ARE THE ONLY ONES IN THEIR
RIGHT MINDS.
 Studies show that men mostly use their brain’s left hemisphere to
process information, while women are more skilled at using both
hemispheres. This would literally mean that women are the only ones in
their right minds

12. 2. MALES HAVE BIGGER BRAINS—
WHICH DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE
SMARTER.
On average, guy brains are about 10 percent larger than gal brains. But
this is probably because on average, guys are 10 percent larger than
gals. Although males tend to do slightly better in math while females do
slightly better with language, standardized intelligence tests show no
statistically significant difference between males and females.

13. 3. THE MALE BRAIN IS GEARED SLIGHTLY
MORE TOWARD MATH.
Males tend to have much larger inferior-parietal lobules (IPL) than
females. This area of the brain is thought to influence mathematical
ability. The brain areas that are thought to control math and geometry
skills mature in boys about four years earlier than in girls.

14. 4. THE FEMALE BRAIN IS GEARED
SLIGHTLY MORE TOWARD LANGUAGE
The frontal and temporal areas of the cortex are larger in females than
in males. These brain areas are thought to influence language skills; they
mature in girls about six years earlier than in boys.

15. 5. WOMEN ARE MORE EMOTIONAL, BUT
WE ALL KNEW THAT ALREADY.
 Females have a larger hippocampus and a deeper limbic system than
males, which allows them to feel the full range and depth of the
emotional spectrum far more than those coldhearted, unfeeling jerk
guys.

16. 6. WOMEN FEEL MORE PAIN, BUT WE ALL
KNEW THAT ALREADY, TOO.
Upon experiencing pain, men’s right amygdala is activated, while it’s the
left amygdala in women. Since the left amygdala is more closely
associated with “internal functions,” it is thought that this is why women
experience pain more acutely than men do.

17. 7. MEN TEND TO HAVE BETTER SPATIAL
ABILITIES.
 Men have a thinner parietal region of the brain than women, which
makes it easier for them to visualize rotating 3D objects—assuming
that’s your idea of a good time.

18. 8. MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER
FROM NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS.
 Males are more likely to be dyslexic and autistic than females. They are
also more likely to suffer from ADHD and Tourette’s Syndrome.

20. 9. WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER
FROM MOOD DISORDERS.
 Male brains synthesize serotonin far more quickly than female brains,
which may explain why women are far more prone to depression.
Women are also far more likely to suffer from posttraumatic stress
disorder after a traumatizing event.

22. 10. MALE AND FEMALE FETUSES START
SHOWING BRAIN DIFFERENCES AT
AROUND 26 WEEKS.
 At around the 26-week stage, girl fetuses generally start developing a
thicker corpus callosum—the part of the brain that connects the left and
right hemispheres—than boy fetuses. This may help explain the fact that
women tend to use both hemispheres of the brain while men lean
toward the left hemisphere.

23. 11. WHEN IT COMES TO INTELLIGENCE,
THERE ARE MORE MALE THAN FEMALE
OUTLIERS.
Male IQ has greater variance than female IQ; in other words, while females cluster
toward the middle, more males occupy the extreme high and low ends on the
intelligence scale.

24. Stephen Hawking

25. SOME INTELLIGENT PEOPLE
I. Charles Dickens – IQ level: 165 (writer
poet)
II. Raphael – IQ level: 170 (painter and
architect)
III. Michael Faraday – IQ level:175
(electromagnetism, electrochemistry,
faraday laws of induction)

26. 12. WOMEN HANDLE STRESS BETTER
THAN MEN.
 Both males and females release the hormone oxytocin during stressful
events. But female estrogen combines with oxytocin to produce a
calming effect, whereas male testosterone only makes men more aggro.

28. 13. MEN HAVE WEAKER IMPULSE
CONTROL.
 The brain areas that control aggression and anger are larger in women
than in men, which may account for some degree in larger male rates of
violence.

29. HELPERN CONTEXTUAL REASEARCH
It has been over reported that boys tend to do better at math while girls
often excel at reading and writing. In truth, the degree of difference is
context-dependent.
In school, girls tend to do better in all subjects, albeit by only about a
quarter grade on a four-point scale, Halpern said, citing U.S.-focused
research. Boys, on the other hand, tend to excel at tests that focus on
areas outside their school's curriculum, she said.

30. GENDER-EQUAL SOCIATIES
 In gender-equal societies, "the male advantage in math virtually
disappears," Halpern said, but other differences grow. When given more
equal encouragement and access to education, on average, girls
become even better at reading than boys and boys further outstrip girls
in visual-spatial tasks.
Economics also matter. "Being poor is not good for anyone's cognitive
development," Halpern said.

31. SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND
While the disadvantage may be staggering in the poorest nations, it is
true in developed countries as well. Halpern explained that while women
outnumber men in college, it is primarily men from lower socio-
economic brackets that are not getting degrees.

32. STEREOTYPICAL THOUGHTS
 Why, for example, are more than 90 percent of CEOs male and more than 90 percent
of secretaries female?
As long as women are doing most of the caretaking jobson society, Halpern told Live
Science, such as taking care of young and elderly loved ones, they are going to occupy
wage-earning jobs that require less time. (In addition to being a research psychologist,
Halpern was the founding director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children.)

33. INTEREST
• here is also an issue of interest, she said, in that many young women may not realize
that being, say, an engineer can also be a "helping" job.
• As a society, we are not only losing talented women from the workplace, she added,
we are also losing talented men in the domestic front. Men can be excellent caregivers,
and numerous studies have shown the importance of fathering for children.
• "We can't have equality in work, if we don't have equality in the home," she said.