PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Romantic Orientation, Quantitative Research, Human Sexuality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Yara Kadulina

Document Summary

Nding population of participants who are willing to honestly disclose their sexual attitudes and behaviours. Only way for it to be truly representative is for it to be a random sample (equally probability of being picked) Ex: questionnaires, but there are bias (ex: trying to select what they think the researchers want the answer to be, remember bias) Early sex manuals such as the kama sutra and the perfumed garden for the soul"s. Recreation were detailed descriptions of how sexuality was viewed in the past. Kama sutra also explained how to be a good husband. Up suck theory of orgasm > for conception to take place the women needs to have an orgasm at the same time as the man; spasms women experiences sucks up the sperm. Allows use to create a hypothesis to see if it"s the case > turns out no.