Deck 9: Sexuality

Question 1

Which of the following factors predicts a higher acceptance of gay men and lesbians?

A) domestic partnership laws
B) gay marriage
C) coming out
D) living in a predominantly gay/lesbian community

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The positive affection/communication dimension of reasons why people engage in sex for the first time is characterized by …

A) feelings of love for one's partner
B) feelings of sexual arousal
C) feelings of pressure to engage in intercourse
D) disinhibiting circumstances

Answer 2

A

Question 3

With regard to the relationship between love and sex, Gonzaga and colleagues (2006) propose that …

A) love is a prelude to sex
B) sex is a prelude to love
C) love and sex are independent of one another
D) sex always enhances love

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Resources, revenge, social status, and utiltarian are sub-factors of which of the following global categories of reason why people engage in sex?

A) physical reasons
B) goal attainment
C) insecurity
D) emotional reasons

Question 5

All of the following are considered to be global categories of why we engage in sex, except

A) physical reasons
B) nurturance
C) goal attainment
D) insecurity

Question 6

Men and women from countries such as the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Western European countries report higher sexual satisfaction, perhaps because …

A) they value gender equality
B) they have more liberal sexual attitudes
C) their societies are adrrocentric
D) increased wealth and better nutrition

Question 7

Which of the following is not a reason women around the world give for lower satisfaction?

A) an inability to achieve orgasm
B) difficulties lubricating
C) too few sexual partners
D) painful intercourse

Question 8

What percentage of Americans report finding their sexual partners in bars, on vacation, or through personal ads?

A) 0.15
B) 0.25
C) 0.37
D) 0.01

Question 9

That women's sexual motivation is marked by erotic plasticity means that …

A) women are affected by social and cultural factors
B) women think about more sex more often than men
C) women have more intense sexual fantasies
D) women are more willing to make more sacrifices for sex

Question 10

Sexually inexperienced partners often cite which of the following reasons for engaging in sexual intercourse for the first time?

A) sexual arousal
B) love for their partner
C) obligation
D) inhibition

Question 11

A casual, usually one-time only sexual encounter between aquaintances or strangers is known as ...

A) extra-dyadic sex
B) hookup
C) coercive sex
D) rapid envolvement

Question 12

Which of the following perspectives suggests that we can be romantically in love with someone, but not sexually attracted to them?

A) biobehavioral model
B) the EBE model
C) biological essentialism
D) neuroanatomy-stress model

Question 13

According to Bogaert (2006), which of the following brothers is most likely to be gay?

A) first born
B) second born
C) fifth born
D) seventh born

Question 14

Which of the following perspectives proposes that factors such as genes, hormones, and neuroanatomy are involved in one's sexual orientation?

A) biological determinism
B) heterozygosity
C) biological essentialism
D) biological dualism

Question 15

Men are more likely than women to engage in extramarital sex for which of the following reasons?

A) emotional fulfillment
B) an unsatisfying primary relationship
C) sexual satisfaction
D) narcissism

Question 16

With regard to age and sex, one survey (Landau et al., 2007), indicated that adults aged 57 to 85 reported having sex how often?

A) several times a year
B) rarely, if ever
C) several times a week
D) several times a month

Question 17

Avoiding proceptivity, a strategy for avoiding sex with a romantic partner, involves …

A) ignoring sexual advance
B) claiming a headache
C) citing the time of day as a reason
D) claiming that it is too early in the relationship

Question 18

Which of the following is a strategy used by women to avoid sex with their partners?

A) incomplete rejection
B) passive aggresiveness
C) avoiding proceptivity
D) A and B
E) A and C

Question 19

Men are more likely than women to initiate sex, perhaps because …

A) men are higher in need for power than women
B) women oversetimate men's sexual interest from their flirting behaviors
C) men over-percieve sexual intent in women's behavior
D) men fall in love more quickly than women

Question 20

When Kinsey reported that 50% of men in his sample had engaged in extramarital affairs, critics suggested that …

A) Kinsey was over-representing this statistic in order to excuse his own infidelity
B) Kinsey was simply wrong
C) a breakdown of moral order was coming
D) marriage as we know it was coming to an end

Question 21

Alfred Kinsey's original research was on …

A) marriage and family
B) female sexuality
C) the mating of the wildebeest
D) sexual behavior of gall wasps

Question 22

The decrease in teen pregnancy in recent years is mostly due to …

A) contracptive use
B) adolescents waiting longer before they have sex
C) abstinence only policies taught in sex education
D) none of the above

Question 23

Women, more than men, tend to list ______ as a reason for having sex.

A) pleasure
B) social status
C) physical contact
D) affection

Question 24

Which flirtation style is characterized by the goal of establishing an emotional connection and conveying genuine attraction?

A) playful
B) sincere
C) traditional
D) polite

Question 25

The firtation style that highlights the fun of the behavior itself is called …

A) playful
B) polite
C) sincere
D) physical

Question 26

The most preferred flirtatious nonverbal behaviors include all of the following, except …

A) facial expressions
B) self-touching
C) body posture
D) gaze

Question 27

Which of the following is least likely to contribute to women's sexual desire?

A) partner tenderness
B) emotional investment
C) relationship satisfaction
D) physiological drives

Question 28

Compared to younger adults, older adults (ages 57 to 85) reported having sex ...

A) more frequently
B) less frequently
C) just as frequently

Question 29

The most frequently identified sexual problem for men is …

A) lack of interest
B) difficulty finding a partner
C) premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction
D) relationship dissastisfaction

Question 30

The finding that women's sexual response is more affected than men's by cultural, social, and situational factors is called ...

A) erotic plasticity
B) sexual fluidity
C) femininity bias
D) male dominance

Question 31

A rejection strategy women sometimes use where they avoid or ignore an unwelcome sexual advance is known as …

A) avoiding proceptivity
B) lying
C) misattributing emotions
D) incomplete rejection

Question 32

A rejection strategy women sometimes use where they indicate they are not ready to reciprocate sex at the time is called …

A) avoiding proceptivity
B) lying
C) misattributing emotions
D) incomplete rejection

Question 33

The greater the number of ________, the higher the probability that the next-born son will be attracted to men.

A) 334 alleles
B) androgens in the pre-natal environment
C) sisters
D) older biological brothers

Question 34

Asexuality is difficult to study because …

A) asexuals find their lack of sexual attraction distressing
B) asexuality does not exist
C) it is difficult to define
D) asexuals have high levels of sexual activity

Question 35

Who are most likely to have successful or satisfying consensual non-monogamous relationships?

A) heterosexual men
B) heterosexual women
C) homosexual men
D) homosexual women

Question 36

Which of the following is an example of a consensual non-monogamous relationship?

A) serial monogamy
B) polyamory
C) swinging
D) B and C

Question 37

Divorce is most likely for …

A) couples with only one child
B) couples aged 25 to 29
C) couples who have been married about 4 years
D) all of the above

Question 38

Moving from one monogamous relationship to the next is referred to as …

A) serial monogamy
B) serial dating
C) social monogamy
D) infidelity

Question 39

Women are more likely to engage in infidelity if …

A) they are in a highly satisfying relationship
B) their immune system is similar to their partner's
C) they are in a same-sex relationship
D) they trust their partner

Question 40

Social monogamy refers to …

A) relationships that are exclusively monogamous
B) relationships without sex
C) relationships where couples practice all of the features of monogamy except for sexual fidelity
D) relationships that are comprised of more than two individuals

Question 41

The main reason why Americans' attitudes towards extra-marital sex have increased in permissiveness is …

A) a time period effect
B) a generational/cohort effect
C) a developmental effect
D) none of the above