Sexual Dimorphism in Cognitive and Conative Space and in the Space of Socialization Variables
Keywords:
sexual dimorphism, intelligence, personality, socialization, aberrant behaviorAbstract
In order to gain information necessary for understanding the differences in criminological behavior of man and women, a battery of measuring instruments was set to two random samples of 667 male and female subjects, age of 18. From these results were derived the variables for estimation of efficiency of cognitive processor, conative regulator and achieved level of socialization. The results were analyzed by canonical discriminative analysis and verified by taxonomical neural network whereby the efficiency of classification was estimated by Fisher's method of discriminative analysis in full space of variables. The relations between the results produced by neural network and real sex of subjects were analyzed by canonical analysis of correspondence. It was found that between men and women of that age exist substantial quantitative differences. These differences are the largest in conative segment of psychological space. On manifest level, men have higher efficiency of all conative regulators, especially regulators of defense reactions and regulators of organic functions. But on the latent level, the most important conative system, system for coordination and control of neural functions, is behaving as important and fairly strong suppressor. In cognitive segment of psychological space, on manifest level, men have considerably higher efficiency of parallel processor, and slightly lower efficiency of serial processor. But these differences are much intensive on latent level since it is obvious that because of effects of differences in cerebral lateralization, system for simultaneous analysis and synthesis of larger number of information functions much better at men and system for sequential analysis of verbally coded information at women. The differences in efficiency of perceptual processor are not truly important neither on manifest nor on latent level. However, as academic achievement at least partly depends on amount of information in long-term memory, and it is significantly better at female subjects, it seems that the ability of sequential search of long-term memory is substantionaly better at women. The differences that were obtained from the socializational segment of psychological space may be helpful for getting deeper insight into the mechanisms that led to well-known criminological paradox. If psychopathic aggressiveness is excepted, where on manifest level there is no significant differences, men have significantly more efficient process of socialization which is aimed at forming a mature and consistent model of social behavior. However, aberrant behavior that is in the essence of sociopath character is more often and more intensive present at men. On the latent level, it is visible that that is, at least partly, consequence of suppressing effects of psychopathic and hysterical aggressiveness. In span with effects of action of Delta system they increase the probability of men's aberrant behavior.
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