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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Gender

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The psychological factors and characteristics of our sex

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Sex

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Biological male and femaleness

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Gender assumptions

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Assumptions on how males and females should act

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Gender identity

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How you perceive yourself as male or female

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Gender role

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Attitudes and behaviors specific cultures consider normal and appropriate behavior of a particular sex

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Testes

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Male gonads in scrotum that produce sperm and sex hormones

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Ovaries

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Female gonads that produce ova(eggs) and sex hormones

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Estrogens

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A class of hormones that produce female sex characteristics and affect menstrual cycle

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Pro gestational compounds

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Hormones produced by the ovaries

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Androgens

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Class of hormones promote male genital development, influence sexual motivation in both sexes, produced by testes in males and adrenal glands in both

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Hypothalamus

What makes you, you

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Brain structure, controls pituitary gland, regulates motivated behavior and emotional expression

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Cerebrum

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Largest part of brain 2 cerebral hemispheres

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Cerebral hemispheres

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Left and right sides of the brain

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Cerebral cortex

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Outer layer of cerebral hemispheres responsible for higher thought processes

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Corpus callosum

Train tracks

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The band of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres

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Intersexed

Hermaphradite

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People who posses biological attributes of both sexes

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Turners syndrome

XO

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Presence of one unmatched X chromosome (XO)

Normal female external organs but internal reproductive systems do not develop

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Klinefelters syndrome

XXY

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Two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome

Undersized external male genitals

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Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS

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Males become insensitive to actions of testosterone

Develop female external genitals of normal appearence

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Fetally androgenized female

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Chromosomally normal (XX) but develops external genitals resembling male

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DHT-deficient male

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Chromosomally normal (XY) male but develops external genitals resembling those of a female

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Transgendered

Kris Frazier jones

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People whose appearance and behavior do not conform to traditional gender roles

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Socialization

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The process individuals learn and accept society’s expectations for behavior

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Androgyny

Blending

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Blending of male and female behaviors in one person

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