FRHD 2100 Chapter 2: Chapter 2

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

A scientific approach to human sexuality: scientists & researchers who study human sexuality take an empirical approach, they base their knowledge on research evidence, rather than on intuition, faith, or superstition, scientists and other people may use intuition or religious beliefs to come up w/ topics for scientific study, but once they"ve selected those topics, they use the scientific method to seek answers to their questions. The scientific method: as skeptics, scientists question prevailing assumptions & theories about sexual behaviour, they are willing to dispute the assertions of authority figures such as political and religious leaders and other scientists, scientists also recognize that they cannot gain perfect knowledge, scientists are involved in in the quest for truth, but they recognize that this search is a continuous process, and that a set of final truths, especially those regarding human behaviour, will likely remain elusive, the scientific method is a systematic way of gathering scientific evidence and testing assumptions through research.