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Research has shown that nearly every lobe has a size difference between male and females. Right of the bat, this means that how they take in, process information, and use that information to carry out tasks is going to be different. So, right there, it says that boys and girls learn differently.
Studies show that the part of the brain that is used for memory storage and planning out the physical world(called the hippcampus) is larger in women and men. This means that girls will generally have an easier time remembering what they learn. But also, the whole planning the physical world comes out on road trips. Females tend to navigate using landmarks, and men tend to map out their location using space and orientation. So again, a learning difference right there.
The corpus callosum or the piece of the brain that connects both hemispheres is smaller in boys than girls. This prevents less cross-talk between the two halves in boys. As a result, girls are able to multi-task easier and switch between tasks at a more efficient rate. The down fall? They might have problems making some decisions or staying focused. Boys brains compartmentalize. I didn't know what that meant, so I looked it up for you guys. Compartmentalization is the process of breaking ideas or concepts down into parts, and have thought processes that inhibit these ideas from forming back together. This is used to make everything operate on simpler terms and to prevent anxiety.
Girls tend to use their brain more on the emotional and verbal function, which explains a lot about the way the majority of girls act and think and feel. Where as boys, tend to have their brain geared to spacial and mechanical tasks. That means getting a real hands on approach, which is the stereotypical male, good handymen and excel manual labor. Men(and women to a lesser extent) need to recharge their brain, which is why they are often found spacing out or day dreaming in class. They find it easier to focus and and be engaged in visual or hands on learning.
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The eyes and the ears of boys and girls also have slight anatomical differences. It is shown that girls typically gain the ability to use both eyes, binocular vision, at a younger age than boys due. Girls tend to also have more sensitive ears that can detect softer sounds.
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They also have done a few behavioral studies on infants and monkeys.
For the monkeys, they set out boy toys, girl toys, and gender neutral toys. The girl monkeys tended to play more with the girly toys, dolls, brushes and all the toys that you'd buy for your little sister. Where as the boy monkeys tended to play with the more masculine toys, whatever those might have been. The gender neutral toys, were played pretty evenly between the two genders of monkeys.
As for the infants, they showed two films, one featuring a human face, and one featuring cars. The majority of female infants watched the film with the human face, where as the boys tuned into the one with the cars.
As for another thing, girls and boys with AD/HD show symptons at different ages and in different ways. Girls symptoms are typically more minute and show up at a later age, where as boys symptoms show up at a younger age, and are typically more large scale.
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But like everything, there is ALWAYS exceptions. There are always going to be boys who are better navigators than girls, and boys who are better quicker learners. There are going to be girls who compartmentalize more than a boy does, and prefers hands on approaches rather than verbal and emotional response. That's just how life is, there are exceptions, and not everyone one single person is alike. This is just general research, that in GENERAL tends to be true.
