Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gay Bar, Cryptanalysis, Handedness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Discuss concept of sexual orientation: heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, and etcetera: benign variations: sexual righthandedness, ambidextrousness, left-handedness. Homophobic (an affective revulsion to people who have same sex in their repertoire) Discuss recent historical events related to the issue of sexual orientation. Most research assumes everyone is heterosexual: findings of research on homosexual orientation. Discuss the commonness of heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual variations. Discuss attitudes towards homosexuality and the legal status of homosexuals in canada. At the start of world war ii, alan turing designed a german code-breaking machine known as the. Turing"s bombes kept the allies supplied with german intelligence for the remainder of the war. By early 1942 allied cryptanalysts were decoding about 39,000 intercepted messages each month, which rose to more than 84,000 per month. At the end of the war, turing was made an officer of the order of the british empire for his codebreaking work. Saved lives and shortened the war by breaking the german code.