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Comments on A. Feingold's (see record 1988-18577-001) meta-analytic assessment of gender-related performance on the Differential Aptitude Tests, which indicated a trend toward disappearing gender differences in the profile of cognitive abilities (CAs). In a review of potential explanatory models for this finding, the present author considers the mechanisms by which both biological and sociocultural factors might influence the developing pattern of human CAs. A satisfactory model might include the identification of a mechanism such as gender, and individual, differences in the frequency of engagement in sex-dimorphic behaviors. This model would predict a specific relationship between early activity patterns and the pattern of later CAs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
