Psychology 2075 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nonprobability Sampling, Thick Description, Human Sexuality
5 Dec 2015
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Sex research goals create basic knowledge & understanding, enhance understanding & influence sex behaviour (risk factors/satisfaction/techniques/prevention), gear towards public policy (sex ed/laws/regulations on tech/porn/sex work) Sex research techniques vary in: how sex measured self-report/observation/bio/implicit, whether large numbers of people studied survey/lab/qualitative, whether studies conducted in lab or field, whether sex behaviour studied as occurs naturally or manipulated experimentally. Most common method questions on behaviour/attitude through variety of ways. Direct observation scientist directly observes behaviour being studied (moser sadomaschoistic) Eye-tracking device measures point of gaze over time (men look at breasts/waist first, bi don"t look at pics of one sex longer but hetero/homo do) Police reports study illegal behaviours (assault/child porn) issues only cases identified by cops. Small proportion of sex assault causes reported and majority unreported. Implicit association test (iat) measures strength of association individual makes between diff pairs of concepts by measuring reaction time in milliseconds.
