Exam 10: Gender: Expectations, Roles, and Behaviors

Social alienation refers to all of the following except ________.

In terms of the differences in the way men and women communicate, when she expresses an issue to her male partner typically she is looking for ________, but what he is likely to give is ________.

Theoretically, you could meet, get to know, date, have sex with, and even marry a post-operative transsexual without realizing the person is transsexual.

________ refers to children's understanding that a person's gender stays the same even if the person violates expected, traditional sex role behaviors.

According to the text, celebrities such as David Bowie, Grace Jones, RuPaul, Peaches, and Chris Colfer could be called ________, because through their dress, actions, and attitudes they challenge what it means to be male or female, man or woman, masculine or feminine.

Christine Jorgensen's sex-change operation was the first to receive worldwide media attention, and she did not shy away from the publicity.

Intersexed babies are born with the following conditions except they________.

In the story of the mother who was concerned that people be able to tell that her baby was a girl, what did the mother do to ensure that her baby would not be mistaken for a boy?

Consider Abby and Adam.Research would suggest that Abby is a better communicator than Adam.

If little Billy was a transgender child, his parents would see his behavior characterized by being more adamant and insistent than Billy occasionally saying he likes to play with a doll.

________ refers to the desire or insistence that one is of the other sex, combined with persistent discomfort about one's biological sex or a sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex.

The most common conditions associated with Turner syndrome include all the following except ________.

Official medical estimates place the prevalence of transgender at about 1 in 30,000 for FTM and 1 in 100,000 for MTF.

Researchers credit ________ with pioneering the way for the development over the past 50 years for more effective treatments and procedures for thousands of transgender people uncomfortable with their biological sex.

According to the text, few human characteristics define us more than our gender.

When female-to-male transsexuals receive the male hormone testosterone, all of the following changes are likely to result except that ________.

While sex reassignment surgery is capable of altering physical sex with remarkably accurate visual results, it is not able to preserve sexual response and orgasmic functioning.

Today, widespread agreement exists among behavioral and biological scientists that most human traits and characteristics are influenced by an interaction between ________ and ________.

________ refers to the masculinity-femininity dimension of our basic nature as humans.

As an infant, Suzie was diagnosed with ________, which is caused by the lack of, or damage to, one of the pair of X chromosomes.