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What you believe you are - internal belief

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Gender Identity

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Reflects anatomic sex at birth.

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Sex Assignment

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What we present publically - external expression

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Sex Role

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18 months

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When are children first aware of their anatomical sex?

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36 months

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When do children firmly acquire their sense of gender identity?

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Rigid and generalized beliefs about each gender's behavior. Tend to be misleading

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Stereotypes

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Beliefs a person has about oneself and others regarding personality traits and activities

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Gender-Role Attitude

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Actual activities or behaviors a person engages in as a female or a male.

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Gender-Role Behavior

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Gestures or personality as perceived by others

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Gender Presentation

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23

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How many chromosomes does each parent contribute?

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23rd pair

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What paid of chromosomes determines sex?

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X

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Females contribute (X/Y)?

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Y

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Males contribute (X/Y)?

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FEMALE

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XX is _____

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MALE

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XY is _______

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Male Sex Hormones Without androgens all infants would develop female external reproductive organs.

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Androgens

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Individuals who do not or choose not to conform to societal gender norms.

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Gender Variants

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Gender that is assigned based on anatomical appearance.

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Assigned Gender

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Umbrella term for those who do not conform to traditional notions of gender expression

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Transgender

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Discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits.

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Sexism

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Serial Monogamy

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Starting at age 19, Helene lived with Ben for two years. When she was 24, she and Ben married, but divorced when Helene was 31. A year later, she married Michael. They divorced just after Helen turned 40. Five years later, she married Jeremy. Helene's way of life is best described as

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Channeling

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While walking through the toy store with her 1-year-old son, Brianna stops and points out the baseballs, shows her son guns and trucks, and walks quickly past the Barbie dolls. This aspect of parental gender socialization is called

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learned through observation and imitation.

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Tyrell and Tenisha like to play house. Every time they play, Tenisha scolds Tyrell for the pretend messes he makes and ridicules him for not knowing how to set the table. He is not allowed to hold her doll except under her watchful eye. According to social learning theory, these roles are

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gender identity

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A person's internal sense of being male or female is

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express high levels of satisfaction and well-being.

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Contrary to stereotypes, most older individuals

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Turner syndrome.

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A chromosomal error affecting females who are born not XX and not XY is called

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social constructionist

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The growing body of literature on gender uses a(n) _______________ perspective

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False

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Individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia are genetic males with outwardly female appearances.

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serve as agents of traditional gender-role socialization.

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During a play period at an elementary school, Ms. Yomogida sends the boys to the football field while she leads the girls in ballet. This is an example of how teachers

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binge eating disorders do not involve purging.

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Binge eating disorder differs from bulimia in that

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gender role.

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The behaviors and attitudes which one is supposed to demonstrate, based on being male or female in a culture, make up one's

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True

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It can take longer to establish a homosexual orientation than a heterosexual orientation.

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True

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Negative attitudes toward sexuality for older men and women can affect the likelihood of older people to see themselves as sexual beings.

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planning marriage timetables

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Which of the following is NOT a developmental concern of early adulthood?

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success

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If Braden wants to be successful using an online dating site, he should advertise himself as a __________ object.

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more

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African American men are _______ supportive than White or Latino men of egalitarian gender roles for both women and men.

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consequences control behavior

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The cornerstone of cognitive social learning theory is the belief that

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live as a member of the preferred gender for some time before the surgery.

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Before someone can undergo sex reassignment surgery, they should

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stereotyped

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Children who watch television tend to be exposed to __________ gender-role views.

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2

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By the age of ____, we internalize and identify with our gender.

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True

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Many gay men and lesbian women experience some of the same negative attitudes toward homosexuality as their heterosexual counterparts.

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changeable.

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At the age of two, children think that gender is

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True

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43% of Americans over the age of 18 are single.

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benign prostatic hyperplasia

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About half of men over the age of 50 are affected with

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social interactions with others.

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According to cognitive social learning theory, we learn attitudes and behaviors as a result of

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True

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The postponement of marriage until later in life has contributed to the increasing acceptability of nonmarital sex.

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Men have to be taught to love.

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Which of the following is NOT an element of the traditional female sexual script?

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amenorrhea.

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An absence of menstruation in a postpubescent female is known as

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True

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Bisexuals often find themselves stigmatized by gay men and lesbians as well as by heterosexuals.

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is experiencing changes which are perfectly normal.

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Edwin is fifty. He's noticed that his erection isn't as firm, it takes more stimulation and time to achieve erection, and ejaculation doesn't always happen. Edwin

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married.

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Stephanie and Travon are the kind of relationship that typically has the highest level of sexual satisfaction. Stephanie and Travon are

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gender-role stereotypes.

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Beliefs such as "women are poor drivers," "men want to dominate others," or "women are more detail-oriented," are examples of

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Sex

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_________ refers to whether one is biologically female or male.

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Slightly over half

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______________ of all divorces involve children.

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False

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Gender identify disorder refers to a lack of gender identity.

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it challenged the dichotomized model of sexual orientation.

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One reason that Kinsey's research on sexual orientation is important is because

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Klinefelter syndrome.

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A person with the chromosomal makeup of XXY has

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A love connection.

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In a study of over 1,500 college students, which of the following is NOT one of the least endorsed reasons for having sex?

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gender identity

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Madyson has a feeling deep inside of her that she is female. This is an example of

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False

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In the United States, it is rare that a person's gender identity and gender role are congruent with their anatomical sex.

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coming out.

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The process of publicly acknowledging one's bisexual or homosexual orientation is called

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People who are not in good physical health are likely to feel less sexual.

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What effect does physical health have on sexuality?

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True

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Social learning theory suggests that gender roles are acquired largely through rewards, punishments, and modeling.

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serial monogamy.

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A succession of marriages, as opposed to one "till death do us part," is sometimes known as

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female.

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Most clothing that emphasizes or exaggerates secondary sex characteristics is

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True

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Male sexual scripts dictate that men should always be willing and able to have sex.

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They are conceptually independent of each other.

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How are sexual orientation and gender identity related to each other?

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10-15%

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What percentage of Americans report at least occasional attraction to or sexual fantasy about a member of the same sex?

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variations

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Deviations in gender behavior are now being referred to as gender __________.

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a gender schema.

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When we organize objects and behaviors as if they were masculine or feminine, the result is referred to as

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internalized homophobia

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Negative attitudes and affects toward homosexuality in other persons and toward same-sex attraction in oneself is

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being slightly underweight

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Which of these is NOT a predictor of who will have an eating disorder among minority women?

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False

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Although acceptance of sex outside of marriage is widespread among college students, there are more boundaries placed on men.

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as a continuum.

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Kinsey suggested that sexual orientation was best viewed

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The Black community is even less accepting of homosexuality than is the White community.

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Why is being gay more problematic for an African American man?

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Oxytocin

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________ produces a feeling of connectedness and bonding.

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cognitive social learning theory

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Maria observes that wearing frilly dresses gets her older sister lots of attention. Yesterday, children in the neighborhood made fun of Maria's wish to play baseball. Maria soon develops an interest in ultra-feminine clothes and restricts herself to cheering on male baseball players. This example supports the ideas of

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gender-role attitude.

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Alex dresses and behaves like a boy and he tells everyone he is a boy. This is an example of

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Anatomical sex

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____________________ refers to what physical structures a person has, such as gonads, uterus, vulva, vagina, penis, etc.

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They were more likely not to marry before the age of 25.

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Which of the following was NOT one of the findings of the research study on the long-term impact of divorce on children (Wallerstein et al., 2000)?

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osteoporosis.

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One long-term effect of the lower estrogen levels resulting from menopause is

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True

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African American gay men and lesbian women often experience a conflict between their Black and gay identities.

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are false and misleading both for the individual and the whole group.

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A major problem with gender-role stereotypes is that they

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1 time per week.

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At age 50, the average frequency of sexual intercourse among married couples is

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married couples

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In which of the following relationship types are we likely to find the highest levels of sexual satisfaction?

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gender.

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The social and cultural characteristics of femininity or masculinity make up one's

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A concept or way of interpreting experience or processing information

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Schema

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Concept that people retain their genders for a lifetime

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Gender Stability

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Concept that people's genders do not change, even if they alter their dress or behavior.

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Gender Constancy

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