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6. What happened in the study?
- boys turned into girls
- raised as boys and remained boys
- raised as girls then developed and treated as males
- girls turned into boys then turned into lizards
7. Males have the hormone _______. Females have the hormone _______.
- Dopamine and Serotonin
- Testosterone and Oestrogen
- Serotonin and Dopamine
- Oestrogen and Testosterone
8. What type of experiment was this?
- Not a real one
- Quasi
- Field
- Controlled
9. Who researched the role of testosterone in cases of hermaphroditism? (Bastista family)
- Imperato-McGiney et al
- Mr roboto
- McLovin'
- Milo-danglers et al
10. Criticisms of the research
- Biological determinism - The role of genes and hormonesm, in the case of gender differences such differences are inevitable
- it excludes women (biased)
- David Reimer had a problem with cognitive processes -unreliable
- Money manipulated David into thinking he was a girl
11. Why did this occur?
- They got bored of their own gender and did a switcheroo
- Due to an insensitivity to testosterone in the womb
- Due to a sensitivity to oestrogen in the womb
- Nobody knows
12. Evaluation: Things that need to be considered in this line of research
- Validity- David Reimer was only one person (low population)
- ethics (family embarassment)
- ethical issues (socially sensitive) nature vs nurture, real world applications, biological determinism, research methods
- ethics (damage of reputation)