Ch #11 Part 2-Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Question 1

Biological sex

Answer 1

Typically assigned at birth and associated with chromosomes, hormone presence, and anatomical structures

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

Socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a society considers appropriate for boys or girls

Question 3

Gender Identity

Answer 3

Develops across childhood; Toddlers begin to label their gender; Preschool children learn that their gender will not change over time (gender stability); Around age 6-7, children learn that gender is biological and will not change regardless of superficial changes or roles

Question 4

Transgender

Answer 4

Gender identity or expression does not correspond with biological sex assigned at birth; We refer to the individuals identified gender

Question 5

Non-binary or gender queer

Answer 5

Not fully identifying with male and female

Question 6

Multi-gender

Answer 6

Identifying across male and female genders

Question 7

Cisgender

Answer 7

Identifying with the gender assigned at birth

Question 8

Sexual Orientation

Answer 8

Enduring pattern of emotional, romantics, and or/sexual attraction according to gender; Core attractions that form the basis for adult sexual orientation typically emerge between middle childhood and early adolescence

Question 9

Alfred Kinsey (1948/1953)

Answer 9

Our orientation can be described along a 6-point scale

Question 10

Kinsey Scale - 0

Answer 10

other-gender attracted

Question 11

Kinsey Scale - 6

Answer 11

same-gender attracted

Question 12

Kinsey Scale - 2-4

Answer 12

bisexual, pansexual or multisexual

Question 13

Kinsey Scale - X

Answer 13

denoted as no socio-sexual contacts or asexual

Question 14

Coming out

Answer 14

The process of identifying sexual orientation and it make take place at or in personal, social, and community