Exploring Psychology

David F. Myers, C. Nathan Dewall

Chapter 5

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality - all with Video Answers

Educators

Section 1

Gender Development

Problem 1

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
Psychologists define ________ as the biologically influenced characteristics by which people define males and females. The socially influenced characteristics by which people define men and women is _____________.

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Problem 2

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
Females and males are very similar to each other. But one way they differ is that
a. females are more physically aggressive than males.
b. males are more democratic than females in their
leadership roles.
c. girls tend to play in small groups, while boys tend to play in large groups.
d. females are more likely to commit suicide.

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Problem 3

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
A fertilized egg will develop into a boy if it receives $\mathbf{a} / \mathbf{n}$ ________
chromosome from its father.

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Problem 4

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
Primary sex characteristics relate to secondary sex characteristics refer to __________.
a. ejaculation; menarche
b. breasts and facial hair; ovaries and testes c. emotional maturity; hormone surges
d. reproductive organs; nonreproductive traits

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Problem 5

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
On average, girls begin puberty at about the age of __________ boys at about the age of _________.

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Problem 6

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
An individual who is born with sexual anatomy that differs from typical male or female anatomy has a _________ ___________ _____________ _____________.

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Problem 7

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
Gender role refers to our
a. personal sense of being male or female.
b. culture's expectations about the "right" way for males and females to behave.
c. birth sex-our chromosomes and anatomy.
d. unisex characteristics.

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Problem 8

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don't know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
When children have developed a they have a ________ __________ sense of being male, female, or some combination of the two.

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