Chapter 12 Gender & Sexuality

Question 1

Gender Identity

Answer 1

involves a sense of one’s own gender, including knowledge, understanding, and acceptance of being male or female

Question 2

Gender Roles

Answer 2

are sets of expectations that prescribe how females or males should think, act, and feel. During the preschool years, most children increasingly act in ways that match their culture’s gender roles.

Question 3

Gender-typing

Answer 3

refers to acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role. For example, fighting is more characteristic of a traditional masculine role and crying is more characteristic of a traditional feminine role.

Question 4

Gender

Answer 4

refers to the characteristics of people as males and females.

Question 5

a longitudinal study that explored the acquisition of gender labels in infancy and their implications for gender-typed play revealed that gender identity likely emerges

Answer 5

before children are 2 years old

Question 6

Gender differences become present at what age and increased at what age?

Answer 6

became present at 17 months and increased at 21 months.

Question 7

Which of the following describes congenital adrenal hyperplasia?

Answer 7

a female individual with high levels of androgens

Question 8

Kendall sees her mother cleaning the house and cooking dinner, so she pretends to make a snack for her dolls. This best describes the

Answer 8

** FIND OUT WHICH ONE **
social cognitive theory of gender.
psychoanalytic theory of gender.
evolutionary psychology theory of gender.

Question 9

Children begin to gender stereotype as early as age

Answer 9

2

Question 10

All of the following adjectives characterize women’s development except

Answer 10

controlling

Question 11

All of the following adjectives characterize women’s development except

Answer 11

NOT controlling

Women are nurturing, interacting and connecting

Question 12

Men live _______ women do.

Answer 12

five to ten years less than

Question 13

In a single act of unprotected sex, a teenage girl has a __________ percent risk of acquiring gonorrhea.

Answer 13

50

Question 14

All of the following are causes of rape in the United States EXCEPT

Answer 14

males are socialized to associate women who drink too much with loose sexual morals.

MEN ARE:
males are socialized to be sexually aggressive.

males are socialized to view their own pleasure as the most important objective in sexual relations.

males are socialized to regard women as inferior beings.

Question 15

Adolescents who viewed sexual content on TV were statistically

Answer 15

more likely to have sexual intercourse earlier.

Question 16

McKenzie is an adolescent girl. Which of the following factors places her at an increased risk for pregnancy?

Answer 16

Her older sister had a baby last year.