Exam 4: Gender Development, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity

Research shows that parents allow boys more flexibility in toy choices than girls.

What is an umbrella term used in your text to refer to a range of different sexual orientations, gender behaviors, or ideologies?

Differentiate between sex and gender, and explain how the Bruce/Brenda case shed light on the nature versus nurture debate.

What statement describes current best practice related to intersex children?

Describe what is meant by the term "third gender." Include descriptions of two examples.

When we say to a little boy, "Hey there tough guy," and we say to a little girl, "Hello sweet little princess," we are interacting based on categories we have deeply engrained related to masculinity and femininity. What theory attributes much of our gender role development to these ways of thinking?

A child with gonads of one sex but ambiguous external genitalia is referred to as asexual.

Cognitive development theory suggests that gender attitudes change predictably as children get older because:

What is the best treatment for Turner's syndrome?

What theory would most likely have the motto, "nature not nurture"?

What female sex organ arises from the same tissue as the glans of the penis?

The gender binary refers to the traditional division of people into two groups as male or female.

Iran has one of the highest rates of sexual reassignment surgery in the world.

Who is likely to hold a more negative attitude about aging?

What term is used to describe a transgender individual who is experiencing confusion or discomfort about their biological sex and gender identity?