Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Human Sexuality, Convenience Sampling, Foreplay
19 Apr 2013
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Sex research can be used to obtain knowledge about a topic (like how many 15 year olds are engaged in sexual activity) It can also be used to enhance our understanding in order to influence sexual behaviour. Different techniques when it comes to sex research: Whether they rely on peoples self reports of their sexual behaviour or whether the scientist observes the sexual behaviour directly. Whether large numbers of people are studied (surveys) or whether a small number or just a single individual studied. Whether the studies are conducted in the laboratory or on the field. Whether sexual behaviour is studied simply as it occurs naturally or whether some attempt is made to manipulate it experimentally. Sampling identify the population: a group of people a researcher wants to study and make inferences about. A sample is then taken from the population: a sample is a part of the population.
