Introduction
A stereotype is a comparatively firm and oversimplified event that occurred at the beginning of a group of people in which all persons in the group are categorized with the group distinguishing quality. Stereotypes can be classified according to racial groups, nations, sports groups, and eyeglasses wearers. To any degree or extent, these stereotypes can manipulate interactions, feelings, and anticipation. Sex-role stereotypes help in relating to differences between sexes. For this research, sex role stereotypes will be applied to Include in scope widely held assumptions about what females and males alike, as well as what they ought to be like. Questions have been asked whether there is proof that stereotypes are present and if they can be used to understand sex differences in cognitive abilities (Halpern, Diane. 237).
Importance of psychosocial variables
Gender is a very complicated variable on account that men and women do not have the same traits, characteristics not only biologically, but also in their life experiences. In particular, men’s and women’s characteristic state or mode of living tend to differ in ways that at least on the face of it, appear to have the relation to the matter at hand in observing gender difference.
Environmental and social components play a major role in the cognitive development of every member of society. The question to ask ourselves is how the act of meeting for social practices and other life experiences that differ for males and females influence the ability to perform intellectual tasks. Though life experiences differ in organized ways depending on biological sex, it is believed that it is a statement of the obvious and that sex-differentiated socialization practices are a thing of the past.
However, in most cases, men and women do the same sorts of things and sex-related differences in life experiences are either following logically as a consequence or nonexistent.
Sex differences in cognitive abilities
The encompassing described disagreement or argument in cognitive abilities are the superior presentation of women in tests of verbal skills and the superior presentation of men in tests of visual-spatial ability and mathematics
Both the verbal and spatial differences have been connected either logically to differences in the rate, and hence the degree of localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain, even though theorists differ in detail.
Nevertheless, some assimilators proposed that both differences arise from the discrepancy consequence of male and female hormones (androgens and estrogens) on brain activity, while others say that it is a superior spatial ability in men which is inherited. (Hartnett, Oonagh 19).
Differences in sexes have been comprehensively researched. It was revealed that women are more skilled than men at converting code into ordinary language; nonverbal cues-in other words, better at understanding the meaning of other nonverbal messages. Women were also found to be in a higher position of decoding facial cues, body cues, and smallest for decoding vocal cues. Women are found to be skilled in sending nonverbal messages that is they are excellent at communicating via the face. They laugh more than men in social situations, stare at other people more than men do and in turn are stared at more by men (Eagly, Alice Hendrickson 135).
Nonetheless, psychological and social explanations are used to comprehend cognitive sex differences, then the possibility of reducing or getting rid of the differences is quite real.
It is said that we are similar to fish that are not aware that the water is wet. The clothes we put on how we equip our rooms with furniture, the toys we were given when we were young, and the hobbies we pursue, the magazines we read all show the differences between the sexes.
In conclusion, examining sex or gender differences and similarities is not a simple case of concluding that men and women are different or similar. However, there are differences in physiology, psychology, and sociology. One cannot simply say that men and women are different. The challenge is to create, articulate, and then test a scientific theory differentiating the basis of these similarities and differences.
Works Cited
Hartnett, Oonagh. Sex-role stereotyping: collected papers. New York. NY: Taylor & Francis, 1979. Print.
Halpern, Diane. Sex differences in cognitive abilities. Mahwah, NJ: Routledge, 2000. Print.
Eagly, Alice Hendrickson. Sex differences in social behavior: a social-role interpretation. Mahwah, NJ: Routledge, 2006. Print.