Psychology's Failure to Distinguish Between Sexual Orientation and Gender Role

question 48

Multiple Choice

Psychology's failure to distinguish between sexual orientation and gender role led to

• A) a unipolar conception of gender roles such that masculinity and femininity lay at opposite ends of the same continuum.
• B) the confusion of interests and behaviors appropriate for each gender.
• C) the assumption that people with sexual interest in members of their own gender would adopt the gender role of the other gender.
• D) the construction of the concept of androgyny, with a blurring of the lines between masculinity and femininity.

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