GENDER & SOCIETY PRELIM EXAM

-CHA
Freud believed the Oedipus complex was normally resolved in males and the id became their
heir.
*FALSE

Gender examines how society influences our understanding and perception of differences
between masculinity and femininity is a concept that describes how societies determine and
manage sex categories; the cultural meanings attached to men and women’s roles; and how
individuals understand their identities not limited to one gender positions.

*TRUE

Sex are the biological traits that societies use to assign people into either male or
female, whether it be through genitalia.

*TRUE

Gender segregation patterns in which children play in groups of the same gender, which
follow disparities in the types of games played, arise at the age of five for several cultures, and
even earlier.

*TRUE

Gender identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female (or rarely,
both or neither). 

*TRUE

Traditionally, Gender is viewed as being male or female. 

*TRUE

Cis-gender describes people whose biological body they were born into does not match
their personal gender identity. 

*FALSE

XY are not a usual chromosomes for Male.

*FALSE

XX chromosomes in Female is the usual sex chromosomes. 

When people talk about the differences between men and women they are often pertaining to
gender rather than sex

*FALSE

Human reproduction is the process in which human beings produce more human beings
similar to themselves.

*TRUE

Having allowed the marriage of two women, the other party being identified as the “female
husband,” granted that the women are already married to a man. This relationship does not
involve intercourse but exists for economic reasons.
This culture is from ____________.
*AFRICA

"Girls engage in more (real and playful) grooming than boys do."
This is a developmental explanation of gender differences
*TRUE
In Oxford English Dictionary Gender means “The state of being male and female as
expressed by biological nature."

*FALSE

During the 17th Century, men in Europe would wear high heels to signify their education.

*FALSE

 Transgender people usually undergo a gender transition that may involve changing their
dress and self-presentation.

*TRUE

In the WHO definition, the term, gender is similar from society to society and cannot be
changed. 

*FALSE

The term, gender, is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not
correspond to established ideas of male and female.

*TRUE

The Navajo Nation of Arizona believes in the “two-spirit” which is a belief that there are
certain individuals born with two genders who both display a feminine and masculine side.
This culture is from ___________
*AMERICA

Sex-different behavioral trends begin to appear clearly in young children during a time
when _____________________ variation is limited, well before puberty and major secondary gender
differences form. 

*biological gender

If a human shows signs in both sexes, the person is considered an intersex.

*TRUE

Intersexuality describes variations on sex definitions related to ambiguous genitalia, sex

*TRUE

A boy's identification with his father enhanced his masculinity, it originated in innate
active (or masculine) endeavors towards his mother."
In this context, Freud regarded masculinity as the external gender.
*False

The usual level of sex hormones for male is testosterone.

*true

"The girl replied with the impression that she had been castrated to the discovery of the
sexual difference, whereupon she adopted the notion of clitoral inferiority and, for the rest
of her life, suffered from penile envy. The girl kept her mother, who had sent her
so insufficiently prepared into the world, as responsible for her lack of penis. Then she
renounced her mother as an object of love in order to obtain a penis and turned libidinally
to her boyfriend. However, when she discovered that her castration was irreparable, she
sought compensation for losing her father's infant."
What is Freud's conclusion on this scenario?
*In the boy, castration anxiety resolved the complex of Oedipus, while in the child,
castration anxiety led to the complex of Oedipus.

Gender in society is also determined by what an individual feels and does. 

*TRUE

The usual gonads for Female are ovaries.

In the patterns of the psychological perspective of gender differences, it is believed that

*FALSE

 The development of sexual characteristics is affected by sociological development through

*FALSE

Transgender and intersexuality in society are sexualities rather than gender categories.

*FALSE

Freud believed that the reaction to the discovery of sexual differentiation was crucial not
only for the development of female sexuality but also for the creation of those personality traits
which he identified with femininity: passivity, masochism and narcissism.

*TRUE

The usual gonads for Female are testes

*FALSE

 Freud also acknowledged that the Oedipus Complex insight in the processes of growth in girls
was "unsatisfactory, incomplete, and ambiguous." 

*TRUE

"The Wodaabe tribe will have men wear make-up, jewelry, and have beautiful attires to
dance in front of women during a special ritual to attract a partner."
This culture is from ______________.
*NIGERIA

Usually both sexes do not have pubic hair and underam hair.

*FALSE

Freud seemed to believe that complete breakdown in women of the Oedipus complex was
impossible, since the two desires, possessing the penis of the father and getting the child of the
father, were exceedingly difficult to abandon.

*TRUE

Sexuality is about sexual attraction, sexual practices, and identity. 

 Asexuality is a term used when individuals do feel sexual attraction.

*FALSE

Freud developed his theory of femininity and masculinity from the comparison between the
actions of the two sexes after that discovery, which is what we now term
__________________________.

*gender role identity

Since the dawn of the new century, the view and idea of gender have evolved in a
contemporary understanding of psychology, sociology, and culture based on the human
perception of sexual urges and emotional attraction.

*TRUE

Freud believed that both genders were fundamentally congruent with prephallic

*TRUE

In Thailand, the “kathoey” or ladyboys are individuals whose sex is male biologically
but identify themselves eventually as being women

*TRUE

"Boys start spending more time away from home and from their mothers."
This gender difference is a biological explanation.
*FALSE

An individual may refer him/herself as man or woman based on the biological characteristics
that he/ she has

*TRUE

Penis envy or the masculinity complex was at the core of the female psyche in Freud's
psychology, while castration fear was central in the man
*TRUE.
Words such as “roles” and “relationships” are used to signify that Gender does not only
include the biological characteristics of a person but also the preference of an individual
depending on the role the individual view his/her gender. 
*TRUE
"Boys play with guns and cars more than girls do in school."
This is a cultural explanation of gender differences.
*FALSE
 The World Health Organization released a definition of Gender in 2018 and it states that
“Gender refers to the biologically constructed characteristics of women and men, such as
genitals, body parts, and built.”
*FALSE
The definition of gender now is tagged along with Biological Identity.
*FALSE
In lay man’s term, the traditional meaning of gender is “the thing between the legs” and/or
the psychological, emotional and sexual attraction towards a member of a different sex. 

*TRUE