PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Robert Latou Dickinson, Human Sexuality, Nonprobability Sampling

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Kelly Suchinsky

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Sampling: population refers to the group of people a researcher wants to study and make inferences about e. g. canadian adults, adolescents in saskatchewan, etc. Purposeful distortion: purposeful distortion is purposely giving false information in a survey. Memory: some questions require respondents to recall sexual behaviour from many years prior. Studying childhood behaviour presents this problem, but alternative of getting data from children currently raises ethical and practical problems: diary method can be used to record behaviour every 1-2 days. Difficulties with estimates: it is difficult to estimate time, especially when involved in an absorbing activity such as precoital foreplay, men report duration as 13. 4 minutes, significantly longer than female estimation of 11. 3 minutes. Interpreting the question: subjects may not agree in definitions of seuxla terms such as sexual partner, having sex, and abstinence does sex include oral sex, any time an orgasm was had, etc. Page 46-72, 26 pages page 2 of 7.