Exam 16: Sex, Gender, and Sexual Behavior

Though often assumed to be exclusive categories, male and female are really two ends of a continuum of sex and gender characteristics. Choose two biological and two social examples of the complexity of human sexual typing and gender development.

Though girls traditionally outperform boys on tasks requiring verbal skills, boys tend to outperform girls on tests of

Just as early childhood inaugurates peer friendships for the child, it also signals the beginning of peer sexual behavior, commonly termed ______________.

During puberty, the reproductive and sexual organs mature, and are known as

The modern term for cases in which an infant's genetic sex does not match its gonads, or in which the infant is born with aspects of male and female sexual and reproductive organs is

Feng and colleagues found that playing an action video game reduced sex-differences in performance on visual spatial tasks, because the video game training involved

Despite little evidence that homosexuality is not an ordinary variant of human sexuality, homosexuality was considered, until quite recently, to be a form of

Which of the following is NOT a part of the Masters and Johnson model of the human sexual response cycle?

Sexual orientation is a complex phenomenon that involves behavior, desire, and identity. Describe what is known about each of the three components of sexual orientation for men and women.

An embryo will develop female genitals unless the testes are present and produce

Despite cultural differences, the quality and expressions of romantic love are far more similar among cultures than different.

Pasterski and her colleagues found that the when the CAH girls attempted to play with the male sex-type toys, their parents

According to a number of studies, at least 42% of people did not believe that this type of sexual behavior constituted "having sex."

Which of the following best describes the state of research on biological correlates of sexual orientation?

Romantic love is related to sexual desire, but the two concepts are not equal. Discuss three examples of research the highlights the distinction between the two concepts.

Since the 1950s, tens of thousands of transsexual individuals have had the surgical procedure called

Hugh Lytton and David Romney (1991) found that mothers and fathers generally do NOT socialize their sons differently from their daughters in most areas, EXCEPT when it comes to

Many researchers have provided evidence that this hormone is important for the experience of romantic love.

All evidence shows that girls and women excel at most verbal tasks relative to boys and men, except for verbal analogy.

A fetus can develop testes only if