S. Gallardo lecture notes

 

Lecture outline:

Boys, Girls, & Brains

 

 

I. Sex Differences in the Brain:  

1, 2, 3                                                                  chromosomes

Males and females share roughly 99.8% of their genes

 

II. The nature of the brain:

III. The misuse of neuroscience -

 

IIIx. The Difference value

0.2 Small difference
0.5 Medium difference
0.8 Large difference

sexdiffs

 

"The Gender Similarities Hypothesis" --Dr. Janet Hyde, U Wisconsin

Lueptow Study - U of Akron, Ohio

 

Summing up

What factors affect our perception of male and female differences?

 

 

 

On to the womb

What makes a boy?

What makes a girl? David Reimer as Brenda

David Reimer

Intersexual stories

 

Sex Detectives:

 

On the fragility of boys