Chapter 10

Question 1

What is the dimension of masculinity and femininity based on social, cultural, and psychological characteristics?

Answer 1

Gender

Question 2

What term is used for sexual activities, attitudes, and behaviors?

Answer 2

Sexuality

Question 3

What is genetic sex determined by?

Answer 3

Sperm which can make XX female or XY male

Question 4

What are the sex chromosomes and where do they come from?

Answer 4

X chromosome is from the mother

x or Y chromosome is from the father

Question 5

The structure and function of reproductive organs do not always match original genetic sex such as?

Answer 5

Genes and hormones

Question 6

What is a collection of actions, beliefs, and characteristics that a culture (or society) associates with masculinity and femininity?

Answer 6

Gender role

Question 7

What is feeling or sense of being either male or female and compatibility, contentment, and conformity with ones gender; reinforced by learning?

Answer 7

Gender identity

Question 8

What are gender roles acquired by and influenced by?

Answer 8

Acquired by observational learning and influenced by reinforcement through operant conditioning

Question 9

What is actively processing information and development of gender specific rules?

Answer 9

Cognition ex “I’m not going to play with that toy it’s a girls toy”

Question 10

What is created by mental guidelines that dictate how to be feminine or masculine and impact how events and info are processed and remembered?

Answer 10

Gender schemas

Question 11

What are 3 gender role stereotypes?

Answer 11

• strong ideas about nature of males and females.
• begin to form around age 3 and held tightly by young children
• are apparent in marketing,media, and academic settings.

Question 12

The is the tendency to cross gender role boundaries, displays behaviors associated with both genders?

Answer 12

Androgyny

Question 13

Whom are people whose gender identity and expression do not typically match the gender assigned to them at birth called?

Answer 13

Transgender

Question 14

What individuals seek or undergo a social transition to the other gender, and who may make changes to his or her body through surgery and medical treatment?

Answer 14

Transsexual

Question 15

What do the concepts of sexual orientation depend on?

Answer 15

Culture and individual attitudes and perceptions

Question 16

Culture plays a significant role in the determination of what….?

Answer 16

Of acceptable sexual behaviors

Question 17

Gender disparities in motives exist but are small for both men and women what are they

Answer 17

Women are more likely to seek love, commitment, intimacy, and stable relationships
Men are motivated by physical appearance of partner, pleasure, and desire to reduce stress.

Question 18

What is the classification of someone as male or female based on biological characteristics?

Answer 18

Sex

Question 19

What is an individual who does not feel sexually attracted to other people?

Answer 19

Asexual