FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Informed Consent, Response Bias, Observer-Expectancy Effect
3 Apr 2017
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Using theory and research to understand sexuality. This chapter will look at how scientists use theory and research to study human sexuality. Theory: a set of ideas or concepts intended to explain something. Provides us with a conceptual framework for explaining and predicting sexual thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors. Theory will provide possible explanations for why and how those patterns of sexual behaviour occur. Central focus of evolutionary theory to human sexuality has been on gender differences in mating strategies for reproductive success. Evolution: the development of a species to its present state, which involves adaptations to its environment. Species can differ in their social behaviour, including mating behaviour. Survival of the fittest. the evolutionary process by which adaptive traits enable members of a species to survive to reproductive age and transmit these traits to future generations. Sociobiology: the idea that social behavior results from evolution.
