“WHY DO GIRLS MATURE FASTER THAN BOYS IN JOHANNESBURG“
INTRODUCTION
Social cognition is what has been noted and proven in the current world affair, it is found that many females and males find it hard to find themselves, whether internally or externally. In my constant observations, it is genuinely seen that the brain undergoes a major reformation during childhood. Improving brain connectivity is designed to give each human the best tools for survival in their environment. We will find this out by conducting a research around the city of Johannesburg and noting people’s actions by also giving out a questionnaire which will provide us with information on the judgement from different people in the city. We will carry out this research in a form of
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SOURCE 3:
Name: Sarah Knapton, Science Correspondent
Article name: The brains of girls do mature faster than boys
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Posted: 20th of December (2013), 7:00 AM (GMT)
Valid article, because this article is conducted by a doctor who has been busy with brains of both genders.
Reliable because of the way it is sourced and has back information which links to what the Doctor has said.
Useful, because the information that is scientific can be related and seen in our modern human body and practices.
Limitations are very little because the information is extended to looking into the functions of a brain etc.
Source 4:
Name: Alexandra Sifferlin
Article: Why Girls brains mature faster than boys brains
Posed: 19th of December (2013)
Place: Newcastle University, UK
Valid, because information is taken on patients of ages between 4-40 years of both genders.
Unreliable, the tests taken aren’t shown as proof that the tests did
Engendering the Brain written by Melissa Hines provides an insight of hormonal influences and implications on brain gender. The chapter begins with explaining the differences between gender difference and sex difference, and explains the psychological factors responsible for brain gender. It describes the role of hormones in the genetic development of individuals and their sexual differentiation. It illustrates a list of hormones, such as testosterone and DHT, which are responsible for sex-related characteristics. Furthermore, the chapter gives an account of how the gonadal hormone plays a crucial role in the development of human brain and human behavior.
The patient is a 52 year old female who presented to the ED via EMS with bizarre behaviors. Per documentation neighbors found the patient screaming in her house. Per documentation LEO found the patient attempting to drink a closed bottle of alcohol hand sanitizer fluid. Patient presents with disorganized thoughts and irrelevant subject matter when asked questions about behavior upon arrival. Nursing staff was asked about status before the assessment and reports improvements in the patient bizarre behavior.
Burak defines gender socialization as “the process of interaction through which we learn the gender norms of our culture and acquire a sense of ourselves as feminine, masculine, or even androgynous” (Burack, 1). According to Burack, people of different genders behave differently not due to biological factors, but due to socialization that teaches individuals to behave in a particular way in order to belong to a certain gender. For example, women may tend to be nurturing, not because they are biologically programed to be caretakers, but as a result of society teaching them through toys and media to act as mothers. In this way, gender becomes a performance based on expectations rather than natural behaviors or biology, a phenomenon called “doing
In the essay, “Women’s Brain”, Stephen Jay Gould talks about women and how their brains differ from those of men. Gould makes use of very many studies to show us how the brains of women are smaller when compared to those of men. He then goes further to show us the point of view of other researchers for instance L. Manouvrier, who is known to have rejected the inferiority of women and went ahead to write about the feeling of the burden imposed upon the women. Later on in the essay, Gould writes explaining some studies that were used to show the difference between the weight of the women and men’s brains.
My father never thought that my ability to do work was hindered by my gender. In fact, he thought the exact opposite. So, that’s why, during the summer before fifth grade, I didn’t know how to respond when a boy told me, “Girls can’t play football.” My ten year old brain could not wrap itself around the words coming out of his mouth.
According to Broca, the average weight of 292 male brains was 1,325 grams and 1,114 grams for 140 female brains. Hence, the average weight difference between male and female brains were 181 grams. The explicit statistics Gould provided may shock his audiences and evoke their curiosity of the reason behind this dramatic difference. Gould then went on to point out the loophole in Broca’s argument that, he “made no attempt to measure the effect of size alone” and claimed that height “cannot account for the entire difference.” Evidently, Broca’s research lacked consideration towards confounding variables that have affected the results and the conclusion he drew from it, and hence his claim of women inferiority was inaccurate.
Statistics show that girls are continuing to be more competent than boys. Kimmel argues that they “feminize” boys by “forcing active, healthy, and naturally exuberant boys to conform to a regime of obedience.” This is going against their nature, which
Although some inherent distinctions between the sexes exist, Orenstein mentions Eliot’s findings on neuroplasticity to suggest that nurture supersedes nature in determining a child’s behavior. A child is most impressionable during the earliest stages of life, when his or her brain is still developing. That is why learning various concepts such as language, for example, is most easily acquired before the age of puberty. Thus, an individual’s upbringing is fundamental in the development of traits and therefore, gender
Some have stressed the possible existence of biological and cognitive differences between boys and girls which would explain the difference in their academic performance, but this is a less substantiated assumption in general. Studies that have controlled for intelligence for example, still found lower grades for boys, ruling out some of the possibilities for cognitive differences. However, one possible physical and psychological difference between the two sexes, which could be presenting itself in this issue, is that boys seem to mature later than girls do.
“Lord of the Flies” reminds us that there is a biological difference between females and males. Jack and Ralph try proving to one another and the boys why they should be the leader. “‘Shut up,’ said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. ‘Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.
These studies suggest that children observe gender stereotypes at an early age unintentionally. Since children’s brains are constantly soaking in new information about the world around them, they have to do so in a way that they are seemingly most comfortable. Studies show that children are most comfortable learning from people who are actively in their lives and attractive movie and TV
Because of these needs, men and women's brains developed specific areas to handle each skill. Men have a specific brain location for sensing direction so they find that easy to do while women have specific areas for speech. ‘’Why Men Can Only Do One Thing at a Time’’ is a real highlight from the author in this chapter. Men’s brains are specialized. Compartmentalized.
Girls get judged harder because everybody in there mind has this picture of the perfect girl in their mind that they think we as girls should live up to be. But we cant so we do things that make us seem like the perfect girl and it gets use judged harder than guys. People can judge me how ever they want they can have this picture in there mind of the perfect girl they will never find her. However when they judge me the would think I ams slut because all my friends are guys and only like three are girls.
The purpose for this lab is to test what has been suggested by many authors decades ago, if the 2D/4D ratio is in fact a sexually dimorphic trait between men and women. Several studies had been conducted in the past, and had demonstrated that in fact males tend to have lower 2D and 4D ratios than women (Galis et al., 2010, George, 1930). Past studies has suggested this difference in ratio between males and females is observed as early as several months to two years old babies, and is in fact due to the levels of androgens including testosterone and oestrogen in which the baby in its mother womb is exposed to (Austin et al., 2002, Manning et al., 1998). In this lab, Students placed their right hand with palms faced down on top of the paper