Chapter 5-Gender And Sexuality Flashcards
Secondary sex characteristics
Non-reproductive sexual traits, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair.
Gender role
The social expectations that guide men’s and women’s behavior.
Gender identity
Our senses of being male and female.
Sexual response cycle stages
The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson excitement plateau orgasm and resolution.
Aggression
Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone.
Sexual orientation
Our enduring sexual attraction toward members of our own sex, the other sex, or both sexes.
Menarche
The first menstrual period.
Gender typing
The acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role.
Social learning theory
The theory that we learned social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
Sexual dysfunction
A problem that consistently impair sexual arousal or functioning.
Refractory period
A resting. After orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm.
Teen pregnancy rate
Higher than that of the European teen pregnancy rate
STD
39.5%
Primary sex characteristics
The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) I make sexual reproduction possible.
