Exam 4: Gender in Todays Society

________ refers to how an individual presents his or her gender identity through personality, habits, and behaviors.

Without question, the experience of maleness or femaleness is socially and culturally driven.

________ refers to biological traits that distinguish males from females, such as the internal and external reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and other physiological characteristics.

A transgenderist is a person who lives as a gender opposite to their biological sex.

Gender is created by people's culture.

The concept of gender is simply a matter of biological attributes.

An ________ is someone who is anatomically somewhere along the continuum between male and female.

How does gender come to be?

Every culture also has an ideal, dominant standard of masculinity to which men are to aim. This is referred to as _____.

The presence or absence of a penis does not make someone a male or a female.

State the definition of sexual harassment as defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity commission (2004).

________ refers to our intuitive sense of our maleness or our femaleness, our internal feelings of what it is to be a man or a woman.

Societal roles are ________, meaning that differences are assigned to each biological sex.

The Hijras of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh illustrate the concept of ________ cultures.

According to the text, what are some ways that families can minimize gender role stereotypes in their living routines?

Kohlberg believed that ________ is achieved when children cognitively reach the understanding that biological "sex is a permanent attribute" that is associated with certain anatomical characteristics that cannot be changed.

It is the absence of the testosterone that ultimately results in the creation of a female.

Compare/contrast "FTM" and "MTF" in regards to transgender behavior.

________ occurs when one of the two X sex chromosomes is completely or partially absent. This disorder affects females only. These babies are sometimes called "X0" babies (meaning an X and a zero, or no other chromosome), rather than "XX" babies.

Skinner, Watson, and Pavlov were proponents of learning theory. Explain learning theory and provide examples to illustrate your explanation.