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Chapter 5 Gender IssuesSex - correct answer-biological maleness or femaleness
Gender - correct answer-psychosocial and sociocultural characteristics associated with our
sex
Gender identity - correct answer-psychological gender perception
Gender role - correct answer-a collection of attitudes and behaviors that a specific culture
considers normal and appropriate for people of a particular biological sex
Gender identity as a biological process: typical prenatal differentiation - correct answer-23
pairs of human chromosomes: 22 autosome pairs and one sex chromosome pair
Chromosomal sex - correct answer-XX: female
XY: male
DSS gene on X chromosome
SRY gene on Y chromosome
Hormonal sex - correct answer-Ovaries: estrogens
Testes: androgens
Gonadal sex - correct answer-During first weeks after conception gonads (reproductive
organs) are the same in males and females
Undifferentiated gonadal tissue becomes ovaries or testes
Internal structures
Wolffian duct: males - correct answer-Vas deferens, seminal vesicles, and ejaculatory ducts
Internal structures
Müllerian duct: females - correct answer-Fallopian tubes, uterus, and inner third of the
vagina
Sex differentiation of the brain - correct answer-Hypothalamus: small structure in central
core of the brain (females - estrogen sensitive)
Controls pituitary gland
Regulates motivated behavior and emotions
Men - larger BST areas and POA areas
Cerebral hemispheres - correct answer-left and right sides of cerebrum - right cortex larger
in males
Corpus callosum - correct answer-broad band of nerve fibers
Connects left and right cerebral hemispheres
Thicker in women's brains
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