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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