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Chapter 27: Responsible Behavior

Check Your Answers: Section Review Answer Keys

Section 27.1 Develop Your Identity

1. Environmental influences are thought to be most important, although they build on heredity.
2. What it means to be male or female is first learned within the family setting. Children observe and imitate what other adults of the same gender do.

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3. Answers may vary but could include: political, economic, and social events and circumstances influence beliefs about the expected roles of men and women.
4. Answers will vary. Students should list influences on their sexual identity and write a paragraph that shows how the influences helped shape them.

Section 27.2 Sexual Behavior

1. Keep your life goals in mind, know and live your values, think for yourself, use self-discipline to resist peer pressure, understand that sex will not solve personal problems, and recognize that a lasting relationship can not be based on sex alone.
2. Holding hands, hugging, kissing, and by sharing thoughts.
3. Chlamydia—painful urination, nausea, low fever; Genital HPV—may have genital warts or precancerous changes in genital tissue; Genital Herpes—open sores on the sex organs; Gonorrhea—genital burning, itching, and discharge; Syphilis—sores on the sex organs, fevers, rashes, hair loss.
4. They want sex to be special. They want strong feelings of desire to go along with a strong bond to one person

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5. Students' reports should summarize their interviews.
6. Answers will vary. E-mails should be supportive and helpful.