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What is sex?
Labeled male and female; defined by our biologically influenced characteristics.
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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.
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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.
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What is a transexual?
An individual who identifies and lives as a different gender than their biological sex indicates.
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What is a homosexual orientation?
An attraction to the same sex.
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What is gender?
Labeled men and women; the socially influenced characteristics that we identify with.
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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.
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What is gender identity?
Our personal sense of being male, female, or some combination of the two.
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What is a sexual dysfunction?
A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning, such as premature ejaculation or difficulty achieving orgasm.
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What is asexuality?
The lack of attraction or desire to engage in sexual activity with others.
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What are 45 chromosomes?
The amount of genetic information shared by both men and women, which helps make us more similar than different.
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What are genetics and physiology?
The 2 ways that biology influences gender.
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What is social learning theory?
Theory proposing that gender is learned by observing and imitating others and by being rewarded or punished.
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What is the sexual response cycle?
Identified by Masters and Johnson and includes the 4 stages: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
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What is same-sex behavior?
This activity in other species is one clue that non-heterosexual orientation is biologically based.
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What is aggression?
Physical or verbal behavior that men are significantly more likely to enact.
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What is menarche?
The first menstrual period experienced by females during puberty.
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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.
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What is a refractory period?
During the resolution stage, men experience this, which makes them incapable of achieving another orgasm for a while.
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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.
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What is social power?
Men tend to have more of this, being more successful in gaining leadership roles and higher pay.
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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.
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What is androgyny?
Displaying both traditionally masculine and feminine psychological characteristics, making one more able to adapt in life.
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What are paraphilias?
Sexual arousal from fantasies, behaviors, urges involving nonhuman objects, suffering of self or others, &/or non-consenting others.
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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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