Chapter 7 Flashcards & Key Terms
- Amazon
- A female Scythian warrior; more generally, any tall or powerful woman.
- autogynephilia
- A form of male-to-female transexuality characterized by sexual arousal at the thought of becoming a woman.
- cognitive
- Related to the aspects of the mind that process knowledge or information.
- congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
- A congenital defect of hormonal metabolism in the adrenal gland, causing the gland to secrete excessive levels of androgens.
- 5α-reductase deficiency
- The congenital absence of the enzyme 5α-reductase, which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone.
- gender constancy
- A child’s understanding that sex is a fixed attribute.
- gender dysphoria
- The unhappiness caused by discordance between a person’s anatomical sex and gender identity.
- gender identity
- A person’s subjective sense of being male or female.
- gender role
- The expression of gender identity in social behavior.
- gender schema
- A collection of ideas about gender that influences perception and judgment.
- gender
- The collection of psychological traits that differ between males and females.
- hijra
- A member of a class of male-to-female transexuals in northern India and Pakistan.
- mahu
- A man who took a female gender role in Polynesian society and performed ritual dances.
- personality
- The collection of mental and behavioral traits, especially those related to emotions and attitudes, that characterize an individual.
- real-life experience
- A period of living in the role of the other sex as a prelude to sex reassignment.
- sex-reassignment surgery
- Surgery to change a person’s genitals or other sexual characteristics.
- sexual orientation
- The direction of a person’s sexual feelings: sexual attraction toward persons of the opposite sex, the same sex, or both sexes.
- sexual scripts
- Socially negotiated roles that govern sexual behavior.
- transexual
- A transgendered person who seeks to transition to the other sex.
- transgendered
- Having a gender identity that is discordant with one’s anatomical sex.
- transman
- A female-to-male transexual.
- transvestism
- Wearing clothes of the other sex for purposes of sexual arousal. Sometimes applied to cross-dressing for any reason.
- transwoman
- A male-to-female transexual.
- two-spirit person
- In Native American cultures, a person with the spirit of both a man and a woman; a transgendered person. Also called berdache.
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