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34 Cards in this Set
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What is the sum of biological characteristics that define the spectrum of humans as females and males?
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Sex
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What is Sexuality?
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A core dimension of being human
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What is the sum of one's cultural values, attitudes, roles, practices, and characteristics that are based on sex?
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Gender
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Gender assignment
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the labeling of a newborn as female or male
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What is Gender identity?
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A person's sense of being female or male or some combination.
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What are Gender Roles?
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Culturally prescribed patterns of appropriate behavior for males/females.
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What is the human capacity to experience subjective responses that elicit physiological responses of sex?
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Eroticism
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What is the behavioral expression of one's sexuality?
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Sexual activity and behavior.
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What is Sexual orientation?
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How one organizes their eroticism and emotional attachment for a given gender.
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What determines sexual identity?
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The particular sexual orientation with which a person identifies.
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Attraction/pref for romantic relationships with ppl of the same gender:
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homosexuality
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Attraction/pref for romantic relationships with ppl of either gender:
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Bisexuality
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Attraction or preference for romantic relationships with people of the opposite-gender:
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Heterosexuality
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No current or past attraction or preference for either gender:
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Ambisexuality
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What are people who cannot or choose not to conform to societal gender roles and norms associated with their biological sex?
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Transgender
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People who wear the clothing and attire associated with the opposite sex:
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Cross dressers
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Men who dress as women only at certain times and places:
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Drag queens
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People who wear clothing of the opposite sex for purposes of sexual gratification
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Transvestites
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What are people who live full-time as the opposite sex without the completion of sexual reassignment surgery?
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Transgenderists
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What are people who realign their physical sex by mental, emotional, spiritual, surgical, and hormonal transition?
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Transsexuals
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What prenatal hormone influences male attraction to females?
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Prenatal androgen activity
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What does the absence of prenatal androgen activity potentiate?
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Attraction to males
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What are the cross-sex characteristics that homosexuals seem to have more of than heteros thought to be due to?
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Prenatal stress
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What is consistently different across sexual orientation?
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Handedness
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What do genetic influences seem to impact more; male or female sex orientation?
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Male sexual orientation.
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Where in birth order to gay men tend to fall?
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Later - younger siblings of older brothers.
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In which role in gay couples is this trend of being lower in the birth order seen?
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The feminine gay men
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What, combined with later birth order, is associated with being gay?
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Lower birth weight
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What family dynamics may increase gay tendencies?
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Lack of a strong male role model or nurturing parent-child attachment.
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What gender non-conformity issues in families play a role in developing as something else?
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Increased cross-gender or non-gender stereotypic behavior.
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Does being a child of a gay parent have any influence on developing a gay sexual orientation or identity?
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no
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When do most people develop sexual orientation?
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Before experiencing sexual relations.
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What is involved in the 2 part process of coming out?
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-Coming out to one's self
-Coming out to others |
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Is psychiatric disorder higher or lower in nonheterosexuals?
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Higher
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