Exam 2: Understanding Human Sexuality: Theory and Research

The influence of law and religion and the impact of economic conditions on sexual behaviors are stressed most by which theory?

Early sexuality researchers from the 19ᵗʰ century concentrated on the healthy and positive aspects of sexuality.

A researcher doing in-depth interviews often asks the same questions in different ways during the interview to assure accurate and honest responses. How does this impact the results?

Why are findings from the National College Health Assessment possibly not generalizable?

Where were Morton Hunt's findings on sexual behaviors during the 1970s published?

Which researcher founded the Institute for Sexology and believing that homosexuality was genetic, argued for the repeal of laws against homosexuality and bisexuality?

A couple comes to a lab and has sexual intercourse first with no one observing and then comes back and has sex while hooked up to a variety of instruments to measure changes in erection and vaginal lubrication. This couple might have been participants in a study done by which researcher(s)?

A research process is a set of assumptions, principles and methods that help a research understand the nature of the phenomenon being studied.

What is a major limitation of the case study method of research?

How did Alfred Kinsey obtain most of his research data?

Sigmund Freud believed that our basic personality is formed by events that happen to us in the first six years of life.

Identify two findings from Marshall and Suggs' large-scale cross-cultural study of sexuality, one of the largest cultural studies ever done on sexuality?

Which theorists would recommend treating sexual disorders by rewarding desired behaviors?

Behavioral theorists commonly use aversion therapy to change unwanted sexuality related behaviors.

According to your text, who is considered the most influential sex researcher of the 20ᵗʰ century?

What best describes the most recent U.S. approach to sex research?

Which type of theorist would state that the biggest sexual organ is the brain?

What was the primary focus of sexual research in the 19ᵗʰ century?

If Freud is correct, sexual urges are LEAST important while a child is in which stage?

Who conducted most sexuality research in the late 19ᵗʰ century?