Exam 3: Gender Self-Concept: Developmental Processes and Individual Differences

Which of the following characteristics is associated with more nontraditional gender-role attitudes?

Define intersexuality and describe any two disorders that result in intersexuality. For each one, show that you understand the physical basis for the atypical physical development that characterizes the disorder.

Problems that can result from genital surgery as an intervention for intersexuality include:

Select any two theories of gender typing and describe the principal mechanisms involved in learning gender-related traits, behaviors, and roles. Also, present evaluative arguments made in relation to each of these theories.

Research on gender attitudes indicates that:

When compared to their own mothers, today's college women demonstrate more ______ and fewer _____.

___________ contends that the reason people have more negative evaluations of males who engage in female-stereotypic behaviors than of females who engage in male-stereotypic behaviors is that the male gender role is more highly valued.

The text presents two explanations for the finding that people more negatively evaluate males who engage in cross-gender behavior than females who engage in cross-gender behavior. Describe and discuss each of these explanations and present a research finding consistent with it.

Which is not true of the concept of precarious manhood?

Research on gender-related traits shows that psychological adjustment is most strongly related to:

Which of the following statements about gonadal development is/are correct?

According to cognitive developmental theory, before children can learn gender-appropriate behaviors they must understand that:

A genetic male labeled a female at birth who experiences a masculinization of his genitals during puberty most probably has the inherited disorder known as:

Ashley watches her mother bathe her baby brother. Then Ashley washes her doll in the sink. This best illustrates , an important concept of theory.

Discuss the different attitudes toward multiple genders shown by Western and some non-Western cultures.

Once the gonads develop the remaining sex differentiation processes are regulated by:

According to your text, research has found that women and men no longer differ on a number of traits long considered to be masculine. These include which of the following?

Later psychoanalytic theorists have differed from Freud in that they place greater emphasis on ___________ influences on gender development.

Which of the following statements about gender identity is/are correct?

Which of the following theories of gender development incorporates clearly defined and easily measurable concepts?