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Sex
Biologically influenced characteristics defining male, female, and intersex.
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Gender
Attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a culture associates with a person's biological sex.
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Intersex
Possessing male and female biological sexual characteristics at birth.
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Aggression
Any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally.
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Relational aggression
An act of aggression intended to harm a person's relationship or social standing.
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Spermarche
The first ejaculation.
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Menarche
The first menstrual period.
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Primary sex characteristics
Body structures (ovaries, testes, external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible.
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Secondary sex characteristics
Nonreproductive traits such as female breasts and hips and male voice quality.
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X chromosome
The sex chromosome found in females (two X's in females).
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Y chromosome
The sex chromosome typically found only in males (paired with X to produce male child).
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Testosterone
The most important male sex hormone stimulating male sex organs and characteristics.
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Estrogens
Sex hormones that contribute to female sex characteristics, secreted more in females.
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Gender role
A set of expected behaviors, attitudes, and traits for men and women.
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Sexual aggression
Unwanted physical or verbal behavior of a sexual nature.
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Gender identity
Personal sense of being male, female, neither, or a combination regardless of assigned sex.
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Social learning theory
Ideas about gender identity learned through observation, imitation, and operant conditioning.
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Gender typing
Acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role.
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Androgyny
Blending traditionally masculine and feminine psychological characteristics.
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Transgender
People whose gender identity or expression differs from assigned sex.
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Male answer syndrome
Men's tendency to guess answers to unknown questions.
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Mansplaining
Men condescendingly explaining things to women.
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Gender schemas
Frameworks that help organize experiences influencing decision making and perceptions.
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