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Sex psych
chapter 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
09/11/2012

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Term
Most young people turn to ____ and ____ for information about sex, but much of what they learn is incorrect.
Definition

Friends

Media

Term
Surveys indicate that more than ___% of Americans favor sexuality education in school.
Definition
85
Term
Sex is the only part of ____, which encompasses all of the sexual attitudes, feelings, and behaviors associated with being human.
Definition
sexuality
Term
The idea that the primary purpose of sex is for procreation originally came from ____ but they also had a very positive attitude about their bodies and sexual pleasure between husbands and wives.
Definition
The book of Hebrews
Term
The early _____ affirmed the procreational purpose of sex, but completely denied its pleasurable aspects.
Definition
Christianity
Term
The biggest proponent of this Christian view of sex was _____ .
Definition
St. Augustine
Term
In Western culture, negative attitudes about sex reached their zenith during the reign of ____.
Definition
Queen Victoria of England
Term
With the availability of _____ during WWII and the marketing of the ____ in 1960, the US entered the sexual revolution.
Definition

penicillian

the birth control pill ad IUD

Term
The manner in which society shapes behaviors and attitudes is called ______.
Definition
Socialization
Term
There is probably no other sociaizing agent with as much of an impact on young people's sexual attitudes and behavior as _____, especially tv.
Definition
the media
Term
Many advertisements, whether on tv or in magazines, provide little product information, but instead use sex to sell their products in a process called______.
Definition
Identification
Term
The media in ____ show more nudity than in the US, but the teenage pregnancy rate is much lower.
Definition
Europe
Term
_______ who emphasized the sexuality of all people, including children, and ______ who published seven volumes about the psych of sex, were two researchers of the Victorian era who attempted to counter antisexual attitudes.
Definition

Sigmund Freud

Henry Havelock Ellis

Term
The first large scale surveys were done by ___ in the 1940s and early 1950s.
Definition
Alfred Kinsey
Term
_____published their physiological investigations of human sexual behavior in 1966.
Definition
Masters and Johnson
Term

T/F

The Old Testament presents a positive view of sex within marriage.

Definition
true
Term

T/F

American sexual behaviors are considered to be the norm by the rest of the world.

Definition
False
Term

T/F

Because of AIDS, all states now require that public schools offer education about STDs.

Definition
False
Term

T/F

The larger the # of people in a survey, the more accurate it always is.

Definition
false
Term

T/F

all cultures consider women's breasts to be highly erotic

Definition
false
Term

T/F

kissing is one sexual behavior that is done worldwide.

Definition
False
Term

T/F

one good method of obtaining a random sample is to randomly pick names from a phone book.

Definition
false
Term

T/F

half of all americans will get at least one sexually transmitted infection in their lifetime

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true
Term

T/F

over half of all american teenagers have had sexual intercourse by the time they graduate from high school

Definition
true
Term

T/F

the era of permissiveness known as the "sexual revolution" started during the Victorian era.

Definition
false
Term

T/F

Kinsey's surveys are a good example of the use of random sampling techniques

Definition
false
Term

T/F

a strong positive correlation between two variables is evidence of a cause and effect relationship

Definition
false
Term

T/F

starting in the late 1990s, there has been a decline in the percentage of teenagers engaging in sexual intercourase and in teenage pregnancies.

Definition
true
Term

T/F

according to historian phillippe aries, the idea of childhood did not exist in medieval society

 

Definition
true
Term

T/F

the biological immaturity of children is an irrefutable fact, but childhood is a social concept

 

Definition
true
Term

T/F

in some cultures girls are expected to marry and begin having intercourse before puberty

Definition
true
Term

T/F

school-based sex ed is a socializing agent

Definition
true
Term

T/F

children who watch a lot of tv shows with sexual content are no more likely than others to have begun sexual intercourse

Definition
false
Term

T/F

in a controlled experiment, teenagers who had just watched tv shows with a lot of sexual content gave more negative ratings to casual sex than teens who had not watched the programs

Definition
false
Term
______ believed in an ascetic philosophy: Wisdom and virtue come from denying physical pleasures
Definition
ancient Greeks
Term
_____ held antisexual attitudes that were reinforced by the mistaken medical beliefs of that time
Definition
Victorians
Term
_____ headed a recent survey of a nationally representative sample of adults living in households
Definition
Edward Laumann
Term
Anthropologists believe the most sexually repressed society in the world to be_____.
Definition
Inis Baeg
Term
_____,______,____, and _____ were four important influences that led to the sexual revolution.
Definition

leisure time

mobility

birth control

antibiotics

 

Term
A random sample is properly defined as a sample drawn from a population in a manner so that _____ has an equal chance of being selected.
Definition
each possible sample of that size
Term
_____ believed that intellectual love could lead to immortality.
Definition
Plato
Term
A major influence on early Christian thought was the Greek philosophy of dualism, which separated ___ and ___
Definition

body

soul

Term
Victorian physicians called nocturnal emissions_____ because they believed they were caused by the same thing that causes gonorrhea.
Definition
spermatorrhea
Term
In the national heal and social life survery "sex" or "had sex" was defined as ______.
Definition
"any mutually voluntary activity with another person that involves genital contact..."
Term
_____ has been called the "most powerful storyteller in american culture, one that continually repeats the myths and ideologies, the facts and patterns of relationships that define our world and legitimize the social order"
Definition
television
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