Diferencias sexuales e inteligencia en niños de 7 a 11 años

Abstract

The concept of intelligence, even more so in the human being, is a quality that transcends limits of the concrete for which it is difficult to define it without necessarily going to its characteristics, but can perhaps be summed up in the words of Bronner et al. (quoted by Zueck, 2010) who states that "human intelligence is the only one capable of developing abstract capacity, to imagine and create new elements, in addition to copying and adapting pre-existing elements for its own homeostatic process” (p.14), but although this is a quality common to all human beings, it cannot be denied that throughout history they have the differences in the use of the same specifically in relation to sex have been notable to which it belongs, with explanations of a phylogenetic, hormonal, neurological, cultural, environmental, among others. Thus, various studies such as McGlone (1978), McKeever (1999), Shucard, Shucard, and Thomas (1999), among others, explain these differences in terms of brain functioning and organization, on the other hand authors as Otero, Rodríguez and Andrade (2009) explain it based on hormonal levels; On the other hand, Fajardo (2008) and García (2003) start from the phylogenetic history while Jayme and Sau (2004) allude to sociocultural influence