Thursday, September 6, 2012
Comparisons of Men and Women
I chose this topic of comparing the intellect of men and women because several things stood out to me that caught my attention. I was surprised to learn that even though men do have a larger brain than women do, about ten percent larger, the intelligence quotient or IQ between them is relatively the same. However, there are way more differences that exist between the sexes such as social cognition, emotional stimuli, and many behavioral and biological differences. What I found most interesting was the actual physiology of the brain, the gray and white matter. The book explains that both male and female brains have about the same amount of neurons or gray matter but they are organized differently. My question is how much of a difference is there in organization between the brain of men and women? If they can accomplish the same tasks and is structured the same as well, what kind of physiological difference causes the way that these human brains function and categorize things.
This video kind of gave me a visual as to how the brains of men and women are organized differently. Mark Gungor explains how mens' brains are made up of "boxes" and everything is kept separate and the brain of the women is all connected by "wires". This is how women can remember most things and care about things that men would not care about or remember.
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