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psych of human sexuality exam 2

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What is distress due to incongruity with one's assigned gender?
gender dysphoria
Which condition is characterized by the presence of a single X-chromosome?
Turner's Syndrome
Our biological sex is the function of the what three components?
gonads, hormones, chromosomes
What type of therapy is used to accomplish pubertal suppression in early adolescents with strong gender dysphoria?
hormone therapy
What are the three major factors influencing societal understanding of gender roles and gender norms?
environment, media, and culture
The hypothesis that people who do not produce their own genetic offspring may enhance the survival of their family's genes by providing resources to their relatives children is known as what?
kin selection hypothesis
According to the national health and social life survey, the percentage of people that engage in homosexual behaviors is _____ than the percentage of people that identify as homosexual.
higher
Facial symmetry is strong correlated with people's ability to correctly guess others' sexual orientation simply by looking at them, a concept know as ________
gaydar
How do researchers determine the effects of genetics and environment on sexual orientation? In other words, how are concordance rates determined?
twin studies
Name the three ways in which theorists define sexual orientation.
Sexual attraction, sexual behavior, sexual psyche
Name the effect that suggests that people have greater odds of developing an attraction to one another when they live in the same area.
propinquity effect
Which theory of attraction is based on the idea of finding reproductive fitness?
evolutionary theory
We are most often attracted to individuals that are similar to us in age, race, ethnicity, economic status, and social status. When we are similar to our significant other on these factors it is called_____.
assortative mating
The tendency to regard ones own ethnic group and culture as superior to others and believe that its customs are standards by which other cultures should be judged is known as _____.
ethnocentrism
Playing hard to get increases ______ but decreases ______.
desire and likability
What term best describes a transsexual person who is attracted to males?
androphilic
What did Freud mean when he theorized that humans were polymorphously perverse?
the ability to derive sexual pleasure from almost anything
What three components make up Sternberg's triangular theory of love?
passion, intimacy, commitment
When a woman has more than one husband, this is known as ________.
polyandry
The relationship investment model is based on the exchange theory. What three factors make up the relationship investment model and influence the likelihood that people will stay in a relationship or seek a new one?
satisfaction, quality of alternatives, and investments
Which two kinds of LGBTQIA+ harassment are the most common?
verbal and sexual
Sets of norms or culturally defined expectations that define how people of one gender are supposed to behave are known as ____.
gender roles
What is the primary difference between transsexual and transgender individuals.
transsexual individuals have undergone gender confirmation surgery and transgender individuals have not.
Which gender is more likely to contact their hook-up partner afterwards?
males
A/an _____ is when people's expectations for how a male or female should act or be treated elicit and reinforce gendered behavior, possibly even outside of conscious awareness.
Self Fulfilling Prophecy
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