Question 1

Gender ___________ in girls often takes the form of being a tomboy, the name given to girls who like traditional boy games and activities.

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Question 2

Discuss the concept of sexual orientation as presented in the textbook.

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Question 3

The ___________ model of love and desire is the most promising so far in explaining female sexual development.

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Question 4

Discuss LeVay's theory of the cause of homosexual behavior and his evidence for this theory.

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Question 5

LeVay has found evidence that the part of the brain called the __________ is different in gay men than in heterosexual men.

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Question 6

One of the most robust findings is that gay men tend to have a larger number of older brothers than nongay men. This is called the __________ birth order effect.

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Question 7

Bem's theory of an interaction between biological and environmental factors in sexual development is the ________ becomes __________ theory.

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Question 8

Describe the basic methodological problems in answering the question, "How many people are gay, lesbian, straight, or bisexual?"

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Question 9

One criticism of LeVay's first study is that all of one group's subjects were gay men who had ___________.

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Question 10

According to the _______ __________ hypothesis of male same-sex sexuality, gay men adapt by shifting from investing in offspring to investing in next of kin, such as the children of their sisters and brothers.

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Question 11

The biobehavioral model suggests that two systems are involved in sexual orientation; sexual desire and __________ ____________.

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Question 12

Masculine hormones called ________ regulate sexual behavior, potential attraction to females, and the brain structures that support these behaviors.

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Question 13

Maternal ________ during pregnancy may feminize and demasculinize male rat progeny because of a delay in the androgen surge needed for proper sexual development.

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Question 14

Discuss some of the practical improvements in the lives of gay couples that occur when they are given the same legal rights and heterosexual couples

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Question 15

Briefly discuss two of the methodological objections made with regard to LeVay's research on the relationship between the hypothalamus and male homosexuality, as well as the counter argument or fix offered by LeVay.

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Question 16

Discuss the kin altruism hypothesis for male same-sex sexuality.

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Question 17

Biologists distinguish between proceptivity, the motivation to initiate sexual activity, and receptivity (in the case of animals) or ___________ (in the case of humans) - the capacity to become aroused to sexual stimuli.

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Question 18

A theory that suggests that H-Y antigens may be involved in the processes that induce same-sex interest in men is called the ________ ___________ hypothesis.

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Question 19

High levels of the class of hormones known as __________ during a critical period of prenatal development are thought to be associated with heterosexuality in men and same-sex sexuality in women.

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Question 20

Several studies have suggested that women who had prenatal exposure to high levels of the female hormone ___________ were more likely to be classified as bisexual or lesbian than women without such exposure.

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Quiz 12: Sexual Orientation: an Integrative