Basics of Biopsychology By John P.J. Pinel – Test Bank

Chapter 11 Hormones and Sex:
What’s Wrong with the Mamawawa?
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Hormones influence sexual behavior by
A) directing the development of many of the anatomical, physiological, and behavioral
characteristics that distinguish one as male or female.
B) activating the reproduction-related behavior of sexually mature adults.
C) dividing into two separate pools, male hormones and female hormones, which have
opposite, mutually exclusive effects.
D) all of the above
E) both A and B
Answer: E
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 333
Topic: Chapter 11 Introduction
2) Hormones influence sexual behavior by
A) directing the development from many of the anatomical, physiological, and behavioral
characteristics that distinguish one as female or male.
B) activating the reproduction-related behavior of sexually mature females and males.
C) determining whether the zygote is XX or XY.
D) both A and B
E) both A and C
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 333
Topic: Chapter 11 Introduction
3) According to the text, the “mamawawa”
A) is the men-are-men-and-women-are-women assumption.
B) is seductive.
C) seems so right, but is fundamentally wrong.
D) is the tendency to think that “femaleness” and “maleness” are discrete, mutually exclusive,
complementary categories.
E) all of the above
Answer: E
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 333

4) According to the text, the “mamawawa” is
A) an African tribe whose sexual practices appear bizarre from the North American
perspective.
B) an African tribe in which the female is dominant.
C) an African tribe in which weak males are castrated at puberty.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Answer: E
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 333
Topic: Chapter 11 Introduction
5) Sweat glands
A) are endocrine glands.
B) release hormones into the circulatory system.
C) are exocrine glands.
D) are ductless glands.
E) release hormones directly into the blood.
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 333
Topic: 11.1 Neuroendocrine System
6) Endocrine glands are ductless glands; they release
A) substances to the outside world.
B) hormones to the outside world.
C) perspiration, among other things.
D) hormones into the circulatory system.
E) chromosomes into nuclei.
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 334
Topic: 11.1 Neuroendocrine System
7) Most hormones fit into one of the following three categories:
A) complex carbohydrates, sugars, or proteins.
B) amino acid derivatives, peptides and proteins, or steroids.
C) peptide chains, saccharide chains, or amino acids.
D) exocrine, endocrine, or androgens.
E) peptides, polypeptides, or proteins.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 335

8) The testes and ovaries are
A) zygotes.
B) gonads.
C) sex chromosomes.
D) ova.
E) progestins.
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 334
Topic: 11.1 Neuroendocrine System
9) In the mathematics of copulation,
A) ovaries + testes = zygote
B) Y + Y = zygote
C) ovum + sperm = zygote
D) gonads + testes = scrotum
E) X Y = infertility
Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 335
Topic: 11.1 Neuroendocrine System
10) Which of the following statements is true?
A) No sperm cells have Y chromosomes.
B) All sperm cells have Y chromosomes.
C) All sperm cells have X chromosomes.
D) No sperm cells have X chromosomes.
E) none of the above
Answer: E
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 335