How does Diane Halpern’s biopsychosocial model describe the relationship between biology and environment in explaining sex differences in cognitive ability?
What will be an ideal response?
The biopsychosocial model argues that biology and environment are inextricably linked and mutually shave each other to produce cognitive abilities. Biology may cause people to seek out different environments which in turn may create experiences that alter neurons and structures in the brain.
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