What can we conclude about gender comparisons in self-disclosure with friends? Angelo: “Men and women do not occupy “different cultures” with respect to providing emotional support to their friends.”

Which of the following students provides the most accurate conclusion about gender comparisons in memory skills? Saundra:”Men tend to remember material better if it is generally associated with male interests; women tend to remember material better if it is generally associated with females interests.”

Which of the students provides the best summary of the two terms, “puberty” and “adolescence,” as applied to females? Tori: “Puberty refers to the physical changes that are related to sexual maturity, whereas adolescence refers to psychological changes.”

What can we conclude about gender comparisons in the ability to decode another person’s emotions? Women are usually more accurate than men in decoding facial expressions. Zacchary: “The gender differences can be explained in terms of both the social learning explanation and the power explanation.”

Most researchers agree that women are more emotionally expressive, but not that they experience more emotions than men do. Men and women may be reinforced by social and cultural standards to express emotions differently, but it is not necessarily true in terms of experiencing emotions.

The Health and Retirement study, published in Older Americans 2012: Key Indicators of Well-Being found that males in every age cohort older than 65 years had a higher percentage of memory impairment than did females.

One of the many findings shows that girls are generally better at recognising tastes than boys. They are better at recognising all concentrations of both sweet and sour tastes. The difference is not dramatic, but it is quite clear. It is also a known fact that women generally have a finer sense of taste than men.

Age can and often does negatively impact memory capacity, but aging doesn’t necessarily always affect memory. An older person who has an active lifestyle, including regular physical activity, mental activity, and social interaction, could have a short-term memory as sharp as someone several decades younger.

Specifically regarding gender, however, these studies have produced varying results. Some researchers have found that females performed better on verbal memory tasks and males performed better on spatial memory tasks (Geiger & Litwiller, 2005; Lowe, Mayfield, & Reynolds, 2003).

Normal aging is associated with deterioration of cognitive function and accumulation of neuropathological lesions that can also occur in Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

12 ways to keep your brain young

1. Get mental stimulation.
2. Get physical exercise.
3. Improve your diet.
4. Improve your blood pressure.
5. Improve your blood sugar.
6. Improve your cholesterol.
7. Consider low-dose aspirin.
8. Avoid tobacco.

The speed of neural processing increases dramatically during infancy and childhood, reaching its maximum at about age 15. Most of this increase is due to the gradual myelination of nerve cell axons (the long “wires” that connect one neuron to another neuron’s dendrites.)

Heredity (nature) determines the basic number of “neurons” (brain nerve cells) children are born with, and their initial arrangement. At birth, a baby’s brain contains 100 billion neurons, roughly as many nerve cells as there are stars in the Milky Way, and almost all the neurons the brain will ever have.

11 Best Foods to Boost Your Brain and Memory

1. Fatty Fish. When people talk about brain foods, fatty fish is often at the top of the list.
2. Coffee. If coffee is the highlight of your morning, you’ll be glad to hear that it’s good for you.
3. Blueberries.
4. Turmeric.
5. Broccoli.
6. Pumpkin Seeds.
7. Dark Chocolate.
8. Nuts.

To arrive at the more than 100 billion neurons that are the normal complement of a newborn baby, the brain must grow at the rate of about 250,000 nerve cells per minute, on average, throughout the course of pregnancy.

In hemorrhage, if too much blood builds up in the skull, the amount of brain tissue and/or cerebrospinal fluid must decrease. Compression of brain tissue can damage or kill brain cells, and this can prevent a person from functioning normally.

100 billion neurons