FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sex Organ, Turner Syndrome, Electra Complex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

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5-gender identity and gender roles 06/19/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Gender the psychological state of being female or male, as influenced by cultural concepts of gender-appropriate behaviour. Gender is distinct from anatomic sex, which is based on the physical differences between females and males. Gender typing the processes by which boys and girls come to behave in line with what"s expected of men and women. Testosterone the male sex hormone that fosters development of male sex characteristics and is connected with the sex drive. Condition in which 1 of the testes fails to descend. Schema surgical creation of an artificial penis (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) During the first six weeks, embryonic structures of both sexes develop (cid:1) (cid:1) along similar lines, resembling primitive female structures (cid:1) itself. At the seventh week, the genetic code (xx or xy) begins to assert.