PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kinsey Scale, Sexology, Human Sexuality
Document Summary
Fair game sheet terms: uncanny valley, we don"t like people because they look just like us humans, kinsey"s basic survey findings (natural selection, kinsey and klein scales w/ different views of sexual orientation. Who is he: father of modern sexology, study of human sexuality, wrote a sex manual to help couples post-ww2. research from husbands at u of. Indiana: founded kinsey institute for research in sex, gender and reproduction in 1947, conducted largest, and most influential sex survey to date, challenged conventional beliefs about sexuality and discussed taboo topics. Criticisms: sampling bias, not random, over-representation of inmates, prostitutes, pedophiles, volunteer bias, what could be different about this who volunteered vs those who didn"t. Sexual orientation: history of homosexuality, greeks/romans > normal, but mostly between powerful men and lower-class or slave boys, 19th to 20th century euros (russia and islamic countries) > mental illness, moral. Perversion and/or criminal offense: most of today"s western scientists > natural variation.
