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Briana Castaneda PSY 101 Fall 2020 December 6, 2020

Psychology In Everyday Life Chapter 4, “Sex, Gender, and Sexuality” What does it take to be a man or a woman? Our organs alone do not determine whether we are men or women. Our gender includes a multifaceted combination of beliefs, behaviours, and characteristics. How do we act, behave, and talk like a man or woman? Each one of us has a sex, a gender, and a gender indentity that are all aspects of our sexuality. These aspects describe who we are in different personalities and attributes. Society’s categories for what is masculine and feminine may not capture how we truly feel, how we behave, or how we define ourselves. In today’s society, us humans have divided people into specific categories just by looks. In chapter 4 of our text Psychology In Everyday Life, the chapter goes into detail on the difference between sex, gender, and sexuality. To quote the text, “We eagerly identify people as either male or female. Before or at your birth, everyone wanted to know: “Is it a boy or a girl?” The answer described your sex, your biological status, defined by your genes and your anatomy.” (pg. 400) In the beginning of the chapter there is information about the difference between sex and gender. Which is two words that most people don’t know the real

meaning to. To define someones sex is from their body and to define someones gender is by their minds. To go more in detail the text defines gender as “in psychology, the socially influenced characteristics by which people define men and women.” (pg.401) The chapter also goes in depth on how males and females differ from each other. It was very interesting to read this section of the chapter because I learned that males and females are more alike than difference. To summarize this portion of the chapter men and women see, hear, learn, and remember similarly. The only differences men and women have are our body fat, muscle, height, the ages of when we get puberty, life expectancy, and the onset of certain disorders. In most of the societies we live in, men tend to have more social power, their style of leadership is more direct than women’s. Lastly, the chapter talks about human sexuality in both women and men. To go more into detail the subjects are sexual motivation, sexually transmitted infections, sexual orientation, and social influences on human sexuality. Many people use the term sexual preference to describe someone’s sexual orientation, such as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, etc. Heterosexuals are individuals attracted to the opposite sex, homosexuals are individuals who are attracted to the same sex, while bisexuals are people who are attracted to both sexes. Sexual orientation is based on one’s erotic, romance and affectional attractions. These attractions could occur with the same gender, to the opposite gender or both....