Exam 10: Gender: Expectations, Roles, and Behaviors

________ 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.

Female-to-male sexual reassignment surgery may involve which of the following?

Instead of the typical XY pairing,some males may have an XXY chromosome configuration that may result in ________.

The most common conditions associated with Turner syndrome include which of the following?

Pat is biologically female but perceives her gender as male.Which of the following terms best describes her?

In terms of same-sex friendships,boys tend to have ________ groups of friends,while girls typically have ________ groups of friends.

________ refers to people who perceive themselves as having both strong masculine and strong feminine traits.

Which of the following statements is true of Sandra Bem's original methods of measuring androgyny if they are to be applied to nonwestern cultures?

________ is something we learn or construct for ourselves based upon our social and cultural experiences in childhood and throughout life.

Social alienation refers to all of the following except ________.

Men tend to express personal problems to people that they are close to because they ________.

One of the strongest and most widely accepted stereotypes is that men are ________ than women.

Numerous researchers have suggested that the psychological advantages experienced by people who score high in androgyny may be due to the presence of ________.

Audry is now ________ years old,and like most children her age,she now has a clear sense of the difference between masculine and feminine sex roles in the culture.

Intersexed babies may be born with the following conditions except that they________.

_____ comprise(s)a set of behaviors,attitudes and emotions that are generally socially expected for men and women in a given culture.

Some have argued that differences exist in humans as part of nature's grand design,which has enabled humans to survive and evolve as a species.From this perspective,the reason men are more aggressive and women are more intuitive is that these characteristics are considered ________.

If Karen and Beth are pretty typical of most children,they will have a preference for friends and playmates of ________.