The Four Theories Of Gender Differences

The four cognitive areas where gender differences are most shown is in memory, verbal abilities, mathematics abilities, and spatial abilities. Memory tests tend to show that women scored higher than men, especially when asked to recall certain words. Women also recalled more words from a “grocery store” list” and recalled as equally with men in the “hardware store” list. They also can recall events from their own lives more than men, perhaps because mothers encourage expressing emotions to their daughters more than to their sons, and therefore they get more practice in this area. They can even remember faces more than men, including individuals’ faces from different ethnic groups and their physical traits. Finally, women can remember objects and abstract shapes, and specifically recall where they remember them from, better than men …show more content…
An aspect of this includes spacial visualization, which men and females do mostly equal on, although males do slightly better. There is unclear data about gender differences regarding reading maps, however some research shows that males may be better at returning to a starting point than females. Other studies also show that they do better in spacial perception tests and being able to better identify a horizontal or vertical line without getting distracted by other factors in a water level test. Mental rotation tests shows the largest gender differences, with males generally performing faster. Some researchers argue that these differences are merely due to the way the task is assigned, in which men did much better when they were told the results would strengthen traditional masculine stereotypes, versus strengthening traditional feminine stereotypes. However, it was also argued that these abilities could be improved in both genders, simply with practice, which men usually receive more of through videogame