Lecture 1

Question 1

Sexuality is a central aspect of being human throughout life and encompasses….

Answer 1

Sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction

Question 2

Sexuality is experienced and expressed in…

Answer 2

Thoughts, fantasies, desires, belief, attitudes, values, behaviours, practices, roles and relationships

Question 3

What are the 6 dimensional models of human sexuality ?

Answer 3

Biological
Psychological
Emotional 
Cognitive 
Socio-cultural 
Moral-spiritual-religious

Question 4

What are 3 theoretical perspectives to human sexuality

Answer 4

Biological perspectives
Psychological perspectives
Social perspectives

Question 5

Genetic theory and sociobiological theory belong to which perspective

Answer 5

Biological

Question 6

Psychodynamic theory

Learning theory and cognitive theory belong to which perspective?

Answer 6

Psychological

Question 7

Sexual scripts theory, ecological model, feminist theory and queer theory are part of which theoretical perspective

Answer 7

Sociological

Question 8

What theory explains how our genetic makeup influences our sexuality

Answer 8

Genetic theory

Question 9

Which theory applies darwin’s theory of evolution as a basis of social behaviour

Answer 9

Sociobiological

Question 10

Freud’s psychodynamic theory encompasses..

Answer 10

Theory of personality, stages of psychosexual development with their corresponding erogenous zones, Oedipus complex, role of unconscious

Question 11

Learning theories are perspectives that explain how human sexual behaviour is learned and shaped through which learning paradigms?

Answer 11

Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Behavioural modification
Social learning 
Social exchange theory

Question 12

Which theory focuses on how people’s perception, labelling and evaluations of events influences their sexual behaviour

Answer 12

Cognitive theory

Question 13

What is sexual scripts theory?

Answer 13

Explains that our sexual interactions follow a set of learned responses that are understood as appropriate in a given sexual situation

Question 14

What is ecological model?

Answer 14

Individuals sexual behaviour is a result of interactions among a variety of factors of influence in their environment occurring at the 4 levels/systems (macro, Exo, meso, micro)

Question 15

What is feminist theory

Answer 15

Sexuality is socially constructed

Qualitative driven methodology gives a voice to both women and men

Question 16

Queer studies examine….

Answer 16

How diversity and variations in sex, gender and desires (aka sexualities) are constructed and abandon the system of binary categories