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| The qualities associated with being a man |
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| The qualities associated with being a woman |
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| According to the functional school of psychology, an inborn emotional tendency toward nurturance that is triggered by contact with a helpless infant |
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| whether and individual has XX chromosomes (F) or XY chromosomes (M) |
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| The class of sex hormones typicall considered the "female" sex hormone |
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| The class of sex hormones typically considered the "Male" hormone |
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| An anomaly in which an individual is born with only a single X chromosome; such a person has female external genitals but no ovaries |
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| Genetically female individuals who were prenatally exposed to excessive levels of androgens and are born with either masculine or ambiguous external genitalia |
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| the consolidation of both female and male traits |
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| The hormone that causes lactation |
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| The theory that argues that our culture and gender-role socialization provide us with gender schemas |
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| organized mental structures that delineate our understanding of the abilities of, appropriate behavior of, and appropriate situations for males and females |
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| (very masculine or feminine)Describes an individual whose conception of self and of others is unusually strongly organized around gender schemas |
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| A measure designed by Sandra Bem to classify individuals as masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated (low in both masculinity and femininity) |
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| According to David McClelland, the drive to strive for success |
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| Behavior that is oriented to objectives that are task-focused and beyond our interpersonal system; contrasts with expressive behavior |
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| Behavior that involves the emotional well-being of one's social or family group; contrasts with instrumental behavior |
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| Alice Eagly's theory that the social behaviors that differ between the sexes are embedded in social roles; that is, the different roles in which men and women find themselves specify their behaviors |
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| Gender roles and many other roles pertaining to work and family life that involve expectations applied to a category of people |
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| social roles based on gender |
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| According to Whiting and Edwards, trying to control the behavior of others in order to meet one's own needs |
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