Socialization may contribute to this difference as much as physique, however.
As infants, boys are ____ girls, and this difference increases during childhood
Girls tend to be ____ than boys.
boys are more prone to many ____
adolescent boys and young men are more likely to engage in ____
Girls have _____ than boys and are more talkative
more boys are diagnosed with _____
The left hemisphere of the brain, which is central to language (see Module 4.3), may mature more rapidly in ____
Experience also contributes to differential ability in language.
____ talk more to daughters than to sons (Fivush, Brotman, Buckner, & Goodman, 2000), and by the elementary-school years, ____ is often stereotyped as an activity for girls
One aspect of spatial ability is ____, the ability to imagine how an object will look after it has been moved in space.
boys tend to have better ____than girls
Another aspect of spatial ability is ______, the ability to remember the position of objects in the environment—a skill in which females excel
Spatial ability also involves determining____ while ignoring distracting information.
boys are more accurate than girls on these kinds of spatial tasks
A) Stronger than - More empathetic - Ailments - Risky behaviors - Less vocabulary - ADHD - Girls - Boys - Language acquisition - Reproduction - Spatial visualization - Fine-motor skills - Spatial memory - Extraneous information - Spatial tasks
B) Rougher than - More assertive - Diseases - Reckless activities - Greater verbosity - Dyslexia - Boys - Girls - Vocabulary expansion - Survival - Spatial orientation - Gross-motor skills - Spatial recall - Irrelevant data - Visual-spatial tasks
C) Gentler than - Less assertive - Maladies - Dangerous activities - Greater loquacity - ADD - Boys - Boys - Verbal fluency - Mating - Spatial transformation - Hand-eye coordination - Spatial recall - Superfluous data - Spatial problems
D) Tougher than - More submissive - Conditions - Hazardous behaviors - More eloquence - ADD - Girls - Boys - Lexical development - Evolution - Spatial manipulation - Motor skills - Spatial cognition - Unnecessary data - Cognitive tasks
