PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Central Tendency, Heart Rate, Sexual Intercourse
22 Sep 2017
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Key learning objectives: learn about human sexuality research past and present, know the meaning of foundational statistical terms. Identify limitations and potential biases in research design and findings. Historical sexuality research: archival research, archives, texts, bow digital documents. Kinsey (2004) trailer video youtube: first big study on sex research. Kinsey"s interview-based approach: alfred kinsey was the first sex researcher to conduct large-scale analytic studies of sexual behaviour in north america, over 18 years, kinsey and his associates conducted 17,500 interviews. Correlations: correlations, when one moves the other moves. Qualitative vs. quantitative approaches to research: qualitative, research methods that use flexible, open-ended questions to explore sexual issues, where we are turning something into numbers. Interviews, field research etc: quantitative, research methods that explore sexual issues using methods that measure and organize phenomena, numerical, surveys etc. Self-report methods: are: we ask them to self-disclose, and objective measures (i. e heart rate, rely on interviews and questionnaires, biases and limitations, memory, estimation.
