Describe the differences between gender and sex.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Sex refers to anatomical and physical characteristics such as external genitalia, glands, and chromosomes. Gender is a set of psychological features associated with an individual’s sex. Sex is physical and is mainly determined by genetics while gender has a largely social basis.
Learning Objective: 1: Identify the main features of the gender domain as they apply to the study of personality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender as a Social Construct
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