Exam 10: Sexuality and Gender

How does the human body know which sex characteristics to develop beginning at the embryo stage? What is the term for someone born with both sex organs, and what are some problems with sexual reassignment surgery?

Jamie was born with an XY chromosome type, and he has the external genitalia of a male. However, for the better part of his life, he has felt like he was supposed to be a woman. He has always identified more with feminine clothes, behaviors, and emotions. According to your text, Jamie has a female __________.

What are gender roles? How are gender and sex different? Summarize two theoretical approaches to the development of gender roles in children.

Equipment to measure physiological activity during sexual activity was designed by __________.

Which of the following was a criticism of Kinsey's research?

The final phase of the sexual-response cycle is called resolution.

The first large-scale study of human sexual behavior to be done after the Kinsey and the Masters and Johnson reports was conducted by __________.

A person contemplating surgery to alter his or her bodily appearance to that of the opposite sex is thinking about becoming ________.

The growth of facial hair is a secondary sex characteristic.

Which of the following is NOT associated with the embryo developing into a male?

The second phase of the sexual-response cycle is __________.

Gender schema theory is based on __________.

Psychologist Sandra Bem developed the concept of __________.

An intersex person is __________.

Parental investment theory seeks to explain why __________.

Studies have shown that in some instances, women with HIV/AIDS have infected their children with the virus when prechewing food and sharing it with them.

What is the incidence of children born as intersex individuals?

__________ refers to the physiological changes in the sex organs and reproductive system that occur during adolescence.

Which of the following is the first phase of the human sexual-response cycle?

A gender stereotype is the term to describe the acceptance of positive stereotypes of males and females that leads to unequal treatment.