Young Male and Female Differences

Although the Declaration of Independence states “…all [people] are created equal,” there are early male and female differences. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the “Father” of psycho-analytical thought, who theorized a mental/cognitive “psyche,” professed the psyche as made up of an “id, ego, and super-ego.” Firstly, the “id” (representative of want/desire), the “ego” (what a person expresses that they are able or can), and the “super-ego,” or (ultimately what should be).

Is a one-year-old’s choice of two cookies over one (male and female) a manifestation of a Freudian psyche? Is it relative to the “id,” because a youngster “wants” more cookies? Or is it more relative to the “ego,” because they can eat two cookies not just one? Or is it pre-/sub- super-egotism that they should respond in that manner because they are being tested.

What about the difference, relative to hormones (testosterone – male/estrogen – female) affecting the brain? Some say the main differentiating factor of a brain (male to female) are hormones. This is manifested in approximately one-year olds wherein a female can see the difference, not only between one’s and two’s (male and female), pretty much equally but also three’s and four’s (feminine way better performance than male at one year).

Freud spoke of male dominance and female envy. I feel that the “dominant” male one year old’s “psyche” feels more satiated and masculine with an equilibration and that one year old males, choosing cookies, feel they don’t need to expend the “psyche” metabolism (they don’t even see) four cookies over three. Contrapositively, a FEMININE one year old is not as dominant/satisfied/satiated and can be deficitual and envious, therefore more “psyche” metabolism, therefore a better “set” (term for expectation in the future) to compute, recognize and desire four cookies rather than three whereas the male one year old, ah, just doesn’t see the difference. The female one year olds seem to be quicker thinkers; the male one year olds slower thinkers.
In the experiment done as a necessary reading for class, the female one year olds are “dominant” in their ability to differentiate bigger numbers (three’s and four’s), and males lesser. Perhaps “estrogen” causes a one year old brain to metabolize more sugar and oxygen needed to accomplish this task of recognizing three’s and four’s, whereas the “testosterone” one year old “stays put” with less glucose and oxygen expenditure (less “psyche’ usage). If the one year old male was to see the one year old female after the choices of cookies with more cookies than him (male, choose: 2,2,3,2; when shown 2’s and 3’s four times, female, choose: 3,3,3,3; when shown 2’s and 3’s four times)…therefore nine cookies for the male/twelve cookies for the female. The male might be envious and the female dominant, a reciprocation of Freud’s designation. Males aren’t inherently dominant, females aren’t always envious. There’s lots of female dominance.