history

Question 1

Historical method

Answer 1

Examining documents, art, artifacts

Question 2

ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Our opinions are based on our own culture as the norm and others are not

Question 3

Prehistorics

Answer 3

worship of women’s ability to bear children

Question 4

Ancient hebrews

Answer 4

procreation and pleasure, polygamy was allowed but more were monogamous

Question 5

Ancient greece

Answer 5

homosexuality, bisexuality, pederasty, prostitution

Question 6

Ancient Rome

Answer 6

orgies, sexual activity between women were frowned upon

Question 7

Muslims

Answer 7

sex within marriage, no premarital sex, polygamy

Question 8

Taoists

Answer 8

sexuality and spirituality

Question 9

Hindus

Answer 9

sex as virtuous and natural, celebrated within marriage

Question 10

Early christians

Answer 10

Sex for procreation only, not passion, sex as sin if not procreative

Question 11

Protestant reformation

Answer 11

Some sex not only for procreation

Question 12

Middle ages

Answer 12

Wet dreams, sexual dysfunction

Question 13

Victorian era(1837-1901)

Answer 13

Extreme sexual repression, marital duty for procreation and men’s pleasure

Question 14

The sexual revolution (1965-1970s)

Answer 14

Social upheaval in science, music, art, fashion

Question 15

Media has 3 types of influence:

Answer 15

cultivation, agenda setting, social learning

Question 16

Cultivation

Answer 16

media represents real life

Question 17

Agenda setting

Answer 17

media chooses what to portray

Question 18

Social learning

Answer 18

characters in media are models that we imitate

Question 19

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Answer 19

Psychodynamic theory

Question 20

history of sex research began in…

Answer 20

19th century

Question 21

Havelock Ellis

Answer 21

British physician
Wrote: Studies in the psychology of sex
First to write about homosexaulity in a compassionate way
Also wrote about transgenderism which he called sexoaesthetic inversion and later eonism
Attributed it to over-identification with admired object

Question 22

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing

Answer 22

German psychiatrist and sexologist
Psychopathia sexualis
Non-procreative sex was a perversion
4 categories of “sexual perversions”

Question 23

4 categories of “sexual perversions”
(Krafft-Ebing)

Answer 23

Paradoxia: sexual response at the wrong time in life
Anesthesia:insufficient sexual desire
Hyperesthesia:excessive sexual desire
Paraesthesia:sexual desire for the wrong goal or object

Question 24

Magnus Hirschfield

Answer 24

Founder of first sex reserach institute
Adminstered first large scale sex survey
Established the first journal devoted to scientific study of sexuality

Question 25

Alfred kinsey

Answer 25

Conducted first major published large sexual surveys in the US Prevalence of homosexuality Created scale from 1-7 of sexaulity Extramarital sex Multiple orgasm

Question 26

William masters and virginia johnson

Answer 26

First to look at physiological response in men and women

Question 27

hawthorne effect

Answer 27

observer effect (people's tendency to behave differently when they become aware that they are being observed. )

Question 28

Variations across cultures

Answer 28

Sexual frequency ~how often people have sex Sexual techniques: ~Some cultures kiss some don't Masturbation ~Masturbation is encourage in some cultures and some condemned Premarital sex ~Allowed in some cultures and some don't Extramarital sex ~Having sex not with your partner Sex with same-sex partners ~Occurs in all cultures Standards of attractiveness is different in all cultures

Question 29

Canada vs USA differences

Answer 29

Canadians are more liberal in terms of sex attitudes than Americans American teenagers are 2x likely to get pregnant Canadians have more sex outdoors??

Question 30

Similarities

Answer 30

25% of Canadians and Americans have 3 some 50% have one night stand

Question 31

Variations within a culture

Answer 31

different norms for different subgroups (age, ses, gender) within subcultures: culture of origin, acculturation to Canadian culture largest and fastest-growing immigrant groups in CA: ~S Asian and E Asian (these culture tend to uphold more traditional gender roles and sexual orientation)

Question 32

Within Canada cultural differences

Answer 32

people have different frequency of sex avg # of lifetime partners: 12 Quebec being the most sexually liberal (most likely to have sex)

Question 33

Biological perspective/cross species behavior

Answer 33

No behavior unique to humans Less hormonal and biological control as you go up evolutionary scale where the brain takes over