PSY BEH 118D Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Masters And Johnson, Breast Lump, Breast Cancer
29 Aug 2016
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Chapter 1: sexuality in perspective: sex and gender. Influence of the media: cultivation, agenda-setting, and social learning; impact of the internet. Cross-cultural perspectives on sexuality: culture: ideas and values that are transmitted across generations and form basis for expected behaviors, variations in sexual techniques, masturbation, premarital and extramarital sex, same-gender partners: attitudes vary widely by culture. The sexual health perspective: all-encompassing term, positive sexual health, basic human rights, another area of exploration. Sociological perspectives: societal influences, symbolic interaction theories, sexual scripts; sex is universally important. Chapter 3: sex research: measuring sex, issues regarding the process of measuring sexuality must be addressed at the start of any research endeavor, self-reports, behavioral measures, implicit measures, and biological measures such as eye-tracking and genital arousal. Issues in sex research: sampling, accuracy of self-reports; test-retest reliability; interviews vs. questionnaires; ethical issues. The major sex surveys: kinsey report, nhsls, natsal, ford & norris (1997), magazine surveys.
