Sex, Gender and Sexuality

Question 1

period of dynamic change and confusion

Answer 1

Adolescence

Question 2

biological and physical characters that make a person either male or female

Answer 2

Sex

Question 3

person’s internal sense of being male or female

Answer 3

Gender

Question 4

primarily refers to physical attributes or body characteristics, notably sex organs, which are distinct in majority of individuals

Answer 4

Sex

Question 5

biologically determined by genes and hormones

Answer 5

Sex

Question 6

relatively fixed or constant through time and across cultures

Answer 6

Sex

Question 7

refers to the composite of attitudes and behaviour of men and women (masculinity and femininity)

Answer 7

Gender

Question 8

learned and perpetuated through the family, education, religion and is an acquired identity

Answer 8

Gender

Question 9

Socialised and varies through time and across cultures

Answer 9

Gender

Question 10

person’s orientation sith regard to his/her intimate behaviour with another person

Answer 10

Sexuality

Question 11

sexual relation between the same sex

Answer 11

homosexuality

Question 12

sexual relation between the opposite sex

Answer 12

heterosexuality

Question 13

someone who behaves like that of the opposite sex

Answer 13

transgender

Question 14

man behaves like a woman

Answer 14

gay

Question 15

woman who behaves like a man

Answer 15

lesbian

Question 16

someone who takes steps to change his/her physical or sexual characteristics to that if the opposite sex

Answer 16

transsexual