What are the differences between sex and gender?

What will be an ideal response?


- Sex differences are biological. Only males can impregnate and only females can become pregnant, for example.
- Gender differences are based on learned behavior that is culturally associated with being a man or a woman.
- Gender is socially learned and reinforced characteristics that include one's biological sex and psychological characteristics.
- Gender role definitions are flexible, while sex differences are relatively fixed.

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There are many music-programmed radio stations now operating without disc jockeys

a. True b. False

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Explain the boomerang effect and how knowledge of that effect could help you plan a more effective persuasive speech? 

What will be an ideal response?

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Group members who speak more are often better liked than those who speak infrequently and are more likely to become a group's leader

True False

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