Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Adolescent Sexuality, Vaginal Photoplethysmograph, Implicit-Association Test
10 Oct 2016
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Sex research has a number of goals it can be geared toward creating basic knowledge and understanding research can be directed toward enhancing our understanding and can influence sexual behavior research can be geared toward public policy. Sex research takes on many forms; techniques vary in terms of the following. Whether sexual behavior is studied as it occurs naturally or some attempt is made to manipulate it experimentally. Also used to measure attitudes about sexuality. Can be collected in number of ways paper questionnaires, interviews, online. Direct observation: a behavioral measure in which the scientist directly observes the behavior being studied. Eye-tracking: a behavioral measure in which it device measures the participants point of gaze overtime. For studying illegal sexual behaviors, a possible behavioral measure to use is police reports. Problem is that into text only cases that are reported to or identified by the police e. g. only a small proportion of sexual assault cases are reported.
