PSYC 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Coparenting, Kinsey Scale, Twin
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Kinsey scale: a 7 point scale of sexual orientation devised, 0 (hetero) 6 (homo) Common finding: more men than women are exclusively homosexual, more women than men represent various degrees of bisexuality. Some gay people promote the idea that they are gender variant: atypical in gender characteristics. Gaydar: the ability to recognize gay people on the basis of unconscious behaviors, voice quality, gait, and so on. Take home points: childhood characteristics are not entirely predictive of adult orientation, even for these extreme gender-nonconformist kids, most gay men do not have a history of such radical gender nonconformity during their childhood. Proposed that homosexual may result in psychosexual development if an infant is disrupted by abnormal relationships in the family. Psychoanalysis traumatized gay patients who wanted to become straight. Socialization effects and sexual interactions attempt to explain sexual orientation i. e. , single-sex boarding school more likely to experience more homosexual experience.
