Exam 2

Question 1

Androgen-insensitivity syndrome

Answer 1

Testosterone is present but cannot connect with cell receptors. Individuals have XY chromosomes, no female-typical internal organs, and active testes.

Question 2

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Answer 2

An inherited condition that causes the adrenal gland to overproduce androgens which influences fetal genetic development and can also affect development later on.

Question 3

Gender milestones

Answer 3

could be awareness of being “gender different” or could be deciding to change one’s outer appearance to align with particular gender expression. Nonbinary individuals have less linear developmental experience.

Question 4

Sources of gender socialization

Answer 4

parents, toys, schools, the media

Question 5

Self-objectification

Answer 5

Women internalize the perspective of an observer as the primary way of viewing their bodies. Consequences: Focus on bodies can be distracting and can effect performance, think of themselves as “sex object”, body shame, depression, disordered eating.

Question 6

Gender bundle

Answer 6

Aspects of sex/gender aren’t ordered or interconnected in a meaningful way.

Question 7

natal sex

Answer 7

sex assigned at birth

Question 8

Klinefelter syndrome

Answer 8

person’s chromosomal type has more than oe X chromosome plus one or two Y chromosomes.

Question 9

Turner’s syndrome

Answer 9

person has only 45 chromosomes and is missing the X sex chromosome.

Question 10

Sex differentiation

Answer 10

Occur at 6 weeks of pregnancy

Question 11

Acculturation

Answer 11

immigrants adopt the social norms and beliefs of their new society

Question 12

Machismo

Answer 12

Gender socialization of Latin boys and men that encourages bracer dominance, etc.