PSYC 1311, 102: Introduction to Psychology
Spring Semester 2013
Learning Log 2 (5%)
Name: Dawood Al-Minshad
Section: 102
IDs:
200901404
Date: 12/3/2013
Date Due: Post on BlackBoard by 10.55 am on the morning of week 6, class 2 + hand in
printed version at the start of class 2. No late submission accepted.
Instructions
1. Download and type your response under the task.
2. Length: none specified.
3. As you are expected to summarize and quote from the article—plus the sources under
3 below—you should write up to two pages. A short response will not be accepted;
nor will a response that does not show evidence of use of the all the sources.
4. Other sources to be used:
 Extracted pages from the two books by Louann Brizedine on the female and
male brains.
 Lori Oliwenstein, “The Most Important Sex Organ,” Your Brain: A User’s
Guide (Time Books,. 2009), pp. 32-7.
Task: write a reasoned and informed response to the “Critical Thinking Applied” on pp.
222-3 of the textbook on “The Question of Gender Differences.”
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Gender Differences
As we know male and female have too many differences. We have different way to do
things. Like what Hyde say “between men and women “are important mainly because
they are amplified by cultural beliefs and roles.” I agree with that because male and
female they have different way to do thinks, to solve things, and different interests and
responsibilities. For example: When male and female get marriage these two has different
responsibility to build up them home. The father has to get work and make up money.
But she has to get care about the kids and home.
In that part the Roy Banmeister (2007) says “calls our attention to a different set of facts.
He notes that men, as a group, are more variable and extreme than women—with more
men lying at the opposite poles of virtually all mental and behavioral dimensions.” In
this case he just said men are better than women in variable and extreme issue. But these
it may be true may be not because the thinks and the emotion is different form man and
other man also that is related to women. So the variable and the extreme are not
Compulsory men is better than women in these things. Like some people say “Your
fingers are not equal”.
However, as the Hyde say “any male–female differences we may find in the brains of
men and women are “hard wired” in this point there are also different between male and
female brain. Some people they do some reach about that case. In Lori Oliwenstein, “The
Most Important Sex Organ,” they ask question “Who’s better at what?” the try to see
which is sex is better in some cases male or female. In male section they have section
about built for size they mention the size of male brans are 8% to 10% bigger. It may be
true but some people who have problem in brain development so in this point that could
be not true in this situation.
On the other hand, in women section they mention. Women are better at (Fine control)
they say in this point “Girls do better at skills like putting pegs in holes. Yes, this makes
them seamstresses and also surgeons” I think this is not true because they say “Girls” in
this point they mean all girls have the same skills in this area. Why? Because all people
they will not do or like some specific things. All people or all gender they have fun when
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they do some likely things. For example in Saudi Arabia some male like to have his own
cars and they enjoy when he drive it. Also women in Saudi she likes to have her own
kitchen. She will not let people miss with her kitchen. In same book they say “14.5 the
age at which boys’ brains reach peak size. And 10.5 the age at which girls’ brains reach
peak volume” in this point we have a different way to brain development.
Since we know there are many different between male and female brains so we can now
do some comparing between them. In this situation there are two different books each of
these book talks about one of brains. The names of these books are “The female brain
and male brain”. I will get some point form these books and I will show the compar.
In male brain when the fetal is male they say “Brain growth and development left
unperturbed by the high testosterone that makes a male brain” On the other hand, female
in same case they say about them brain is “Brain development: starting 8 weeks after
conception.” So, we have different time to development in male and female brain.
As you can read above we have differences in many things one of these things is
the way we think. Male thinks are different than women. Also female behavior is
different than male. As well as the internal composition of woman's body is different
from the formations that get to a man's body for example: hormones. I think this is true
because the hormones in male are sometime strong then the hormones in women.
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