PSYCH 3AC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Golden Fleece Award, Elaine Hatfield, Sociosexual Orientation
3 Apr 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Fear of sex beginning with freud, continued with dr. kellogg should(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t o(cid:396) e(cid:374)jo(cid:455) se(cid:454) Freud thought that cultural stigma was causing people to have problems. Kinsey as a pervert wrote about human sexual behaviour, was shocking, not taken seriously: golden fleece award & william proxmire sex research as perverted, said that sex researchers were stealing american money, first targeted elaine hatfield. Ethics of research: boards rejecting surveys that include personal questions, fear of traumatizing participants, but no harm in reality, non-normative studies are especially challenging to research. Measuring: operationalization difficult, tainted with confounds can be affected by partner availability, compromise. Sexual desire inventory survey of how often would like to have sex/masturbate: bette(cid:396) (cid:373)easu(cid:396)e fo(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) tha(cid:374) ki(cid:374)se(cid:455)(cid:859)s. Correlates of sex drive: biological sex: men have higher drive than women (cid:449)h(cid:455) the(cid:396)e(cid:859)s a (cid:272)o(cid:373)p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed. Socio-sexual orientation: how comfortable are with casual sex more comfortable usually have more sex partners (socio-sexually unrestricted); strongly connected to sex drive.
