PSYC 3P34 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Orientation, Stratified Sampling, Strain Gauge
13 Jan 2016
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The ways we experience and express ourselves as human beings experiences and responses: awareness of our sex/gender, capacity for erotic, identity, leisure activity. Sexual facts: even truths are just the best we know at this time, ex. Hysteria : have to think of historical lens. Think of women as having no sexuality. Dr. clelia moser, wrote dissertation which overturned some medical thought at the time began surveying patients. Sample was limited and not representative; small, educated women. Also sammy tubbs the boy doctor & sponsie the. How do we define sexual normalcy? (from l. tiefer: subjective, statistical (ex. prevalence, rates, idealistic (ex. optimal, cultural (ex. beliefs, social, clinical (ex. health) There are variations among individuals within populations. These variations among individuals are, at least in part, passed on from parents to offspring (i. e. , heritable) In every generation, some individuals are more successful at surviving and reproducing. The adaptations that increased success were thus naturally-
