28 Chapter 1Homosexuals—Individuals who prefer
same-sex sexual partners.
Interrole conflict—Experience of conflict
between expectations of two or more roles
that are assumed simultaneously.
Intersex—A person who is born with
ambiguous genitalia.
Intrarole conflict—Experience of conflict
between expectations within a given role.
Masculine—Description of a trait,
behavior, or interest assigned to the male
gender role.
Maximalists—Persons who maintain there
are important differences between the two
sexes.
Minimalists—Persons who maintain the
two sexes are fundamentally the same.
Role—Social position accompanied by a set
of norms or expectations.
Sex—Term used to refer to the biological
categories of male and female.
Sex discrimination—Behavioral component
of one’s attitude toward men and women
that involves differential treatment of people
based on their biological sex.Sexism—Affective component of one’s
attitude toward sex characterized by
demonstration of prejudice toward people
based on their sex.
Sex-related behavior—Behavior that
corresponds to sex but is not necessarily
caused by sex.
Sex stereotype/gender-role stereotype—
Cognitive component of one’s attitude
toward sex.
Sex-typed—Condition of possessing the
biological traits of one sex and exhibiting
the psychological traits that correspond
with that sex.
Sex typing—Acquisition of sex-appropriate
preferences, behaviors, skills, and self-
concept (i.e., the acquisition of gender roles).
Sexual orientation—Preference to have other-
sex or same-sex persons as sexual partners.
Transgender—Descriptive term referring to
an individual whose psychological sex is not
congruent with biological sex.
Transsexuals—Persons whose biological sex
have been changed surgically to reflect their
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