Chapter Seven

Cognitive Abilities and Aptitudes

cognitive abilities

mental skills involved in thinking, learning, remembering, and solving problems

do intelligence scores vary between women and men?

no- broadly similar

verbal abilities

vocabulary, fluency, reading, writing, reasoning

T/F: women and men show differences in vocabulary

False

T/F: girls outperform boys on many reading assessments

True

spatial location memory

remembering where objects appeared. women slightly better at it

greater male variability hypothesis

men show greater score dispersion than women in some domains

biopsychosocial model

account of behaviour involving interacting biological, psychological, and social processes

math anxiety

feelings of tension or apprehension that interfere with doing mathematics