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6. How many chromosomes do each person have?
- A pair of 26
- A pair of 23
- A pair of 18
- A pair of 32
7. What happened in the study?
- raised as girls then developed and treated as males
- raised as boys and remained boys
- girls turned into boys then turned into lizards
- boys turned into girls
8. Males have the hormone _______. Females have the hormone _______.
- Dopamine and Serotonin
- Oestrogen and Testosterone
- Testosterone and Oestrogen
- Serotonin and Dopamine
9. what is the difference between sex and gender?
- Sex is the biology of why we are male or female
- sex and gender confusion causes transsexualism
- There is no difference
- Gender depends on how you feel on the day
10. 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)
11. Criticisms of the research
- Money manipulated David into thinking he was a girl
- Biological determinism - The role of genes and hormonesm, in the case of gender differences such differences are inevitable
- David Reimer had a problem with cognitive processes -unreliable
- it excludes women (biased)
12. Who suggested there were sex differences in the brain?
- Geeslouise and Gandalf-the-grey
- Sullivan and Galabaurda
- Geswind and Galabaurda
- Igotswind and Galabingo