The characteristics associated with being male or female are known as ?
What is Gender
100
True or False. We are assigned a gender based on anatomical appearance.
What is True
100
True or False. Each culture determines the content of gender roles in its own way.
What is True
100
True or False. Gender, gender identity, and gender roles are conceptually independent of sexual orientation.
What is True
100
The theory that focuses on children's active interpretation of the messages they receive from the environment is known as the _________________?
What is Cognitive Development Theory
200
Attitudes, behaviors, rights and responsibilities are examples of what ?
What is Gender Roles
200
At what age are we able to identify our self as a girl or a boy ?
What is 2
200
True or False. Biology creates our concepts of masculinity and femininity.
What is False
200
True or False. Our traditional notion of gender roles assumes that heterosexuality is a critical component of masculinity and femininity.
What is True
200
True or False. Queer theories view gender as a set of practices and performances that occur through language and a political system.
What is False
300
Gender given by others, usually at birth is called ?
What is Assigned Gender
300
True or False. We associate our gender with our genitals.
What is False
300
Men are aggressive and they embody ____________?
What is Instrumentality
300
A society may be best understood by how it is organized according to gender. This statement is true according to the _________________?
What is Gender Role Theory
300
A standard applied more leniently to one sex than to another is called a ____________?
What is Sexual Double Standard
400
True or False. The actual activities or behaviors a person engages in as a male or female are called gender variations.
What is False
400
Individuals that have an appearance and behaviors that do not conform to the gender role for people of that particular sex are known as ?
What is Transgendered
400
Women are passive and they embody ___________?
What is Expressiveness
400
True or False. In psychology, gender theory focuses on how gender is created and what its purposes are.
What is True
400
True or False. Children's perceptions of their friends' gender-role attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs encourage them adopt similar ones to be accepted.
What is True
500
Bodily habits or personality that is perceived by others is known as your ______________?
What is Gender Presentation
500
True or False. In some cultures they put off instilling gender identity in males until later.
What is True
500
Discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits is known as ?
What is Sexism
500
True or False. Gender theorists accept the idea that biology creates male/female differences.
What is False
500
What theory do behaviorists emphasize observable events and their consequences, rather than internal feelings and drives.