Sex vs. Gender Biological Sex Gender Human Sexuality Sexual Orientation
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What is sex?
Labeled male and female; defined by our biologically influenced characteristics.
100
What are secondary sex characteristics?
During puberty males and females begin to develop these traits, which include breasts and hips in females, and facial hair in males.
100
What is a gender role?
Set of expected behaviors, attitudes, and traits for men and women; often leads to stereotypes and typically varies based on geography and culture.
100
What is a transexual?
An individual who identifies and lives as a different gender than their biological sex indicates.
100
What is a homosexual orientation?
An attraction to the same sex.
200
What is gender?
Labeled men and women; the socially influenced characteristics that we identify with.
200
What is the 7th week?
In offspring with XY sex chromosomes, the Y chromosome prompts the testes to develop and begin producing testosterone around this time point in prenatal development.
200
What is gender identity?
Our personal sense of being male, female, or some combination of the two.
200
What is a sexual dysfunction?
A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning, such as premature ejaculation or difficulty achieving orgasm.
200
What is asexuality?
The lack of attraction or desire to engage in sexual activity with others.
300
What are 45 chromosomes?
The amount of genetic information shared by both men and women, which helps make us more similar than different.
300
What are genetics and physiology?
The 2 ways that biology influences gender.
300
What is social learning theory?
Theory proposing that gender is learned by observing and imitating others and by being rewarded or punished.
300
What is the sexual response cycle?
Identified by Masters and Johnson and includes the 4 stages: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
300
What is same-sex behavior?
This activity in other species is one clue that non-heterosexual orientation is biologically based.
400
What is aggression?
Physical or verbal behavior that men are significantly more likely to enact.
400
What is menarche?
The first menstrual period experienced by females during puberty.
400
What is gender schemas?
Our general concepts about what makes a man and a woman; form early in life and organize our experiences of male and female characteristics.
400
What is a refractory period?
During the resolution stage, men experience this, which makes them incapable of achieving another orgasm for a while.
400
What is the fertile female theory?
The theory that male homosexuality is genetically linked to the mother's side of the family and women in the family are more likely to have more kids as a result.
500
What is social power?
Men tend to have more of this, being more successful in gaining leadership roles and higher pay.
500
What is a disorder of sexual development (specifically, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome)
If Suzy was genetically has XY chromosomes, but has always outwardly appeared female, then she is likely diagnosed with this.
500
What is androgyny?
Displaying both traditionally masculine and feminine psychological characteristics, making one more able to adapt in life.
500
What are paraphilias?
Sexual arousal from fantasies, behaviors, urges involving nonhuman objects, suffering of self or others, &/or non-consenting others.
500
What is a maternal immune-system reaction?
The fraternal birth order effect is likely due to this and makes men with several older brothers more likely to identify as gay.






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