PSYC 1101 Chapter 4: Chapter 4
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The biologically influenced characteristics by which people defined male and female. The socially influenced characteristics by which people define men and women. Each of us receives 23 chromosomes from our mother and father. Total of 46, and 45 are unisex. Average girl enter puberty about a year earlier than the average boy. Females have twice the risk of developing depression and anxiety. Also 10 time more likely to developing an eating disorder. Males are 4 times the risk to die by suicide or develop alcohol use disorder. Any physical or verbal act intended to hurt someone. Men generally more aggression, extreme physical violence. Men have been more willing to blast people with what they believed was intense and prolonged noise. Men take the lead in hunting, fighting, warring, and supporting war. Relational aggression ( hurtful gossip: women are slightly more likely than men to commit them.
