Exam 3: Sex Research

In an experiment, one group of men watched a sexually-explicit video and another group watched a video of President Clinton's inauguration.After exposure to the videos, measures of sexual arousal were obtained for each video.In this study, the videos best represent the _____ variable.

Howard lives in Australia.He wants to study the sexual behavior of students in private colleges in the United States.Which of the following would be the best and most convenient method of data collection for Howard?

_____ is a research method that aims to provide a complete, probing description of a human society.

Five men report having intercourse 5, 7, 10, 11, and 12 times per month.What is the mean frequency of intercourse for this group?

When people respond to questions about sexuality, sometimes they exaggerate and other times they tend to minimize or hide certain facts.In which of the following methods of measuring sexuality would this problem arise?

Which of the following is true of a participant's right to quit a study on sexuality at any time?

Five men report having intercourse 3, 5, 7, 10, and 5 times per month.What is the mean frequency of intercourse for this group?

What is qualitative research?

Is sex research ethical?

What is the danger in confusing 'average' with 'normal' in sex research?

Which of the following is an advantage of web-based surveys?

In a study about sexuality, participants of a perfectly random sample were truthful and tried to give information that was as accurate as possible.Identify the factor that is most likely to make their self-reports inaccurate in this context.

Five women report having intercourse 5, 7, 10, 11, and 12 times per month.What is the median frequency of intercourse for this group?

Kinsey chose not to use probability sampling methods because of the problems associated with:

Masters and Johnson's report "Human Sexual Response" differs from surveys of sexual behavior because:

A group of researchers want to study the effects of alcohol on sexual behavior in mice.They inject 50 mice with an alcohol solution and inject 50 other mice with a harmless saline solution, after which they observe their mating behavior.In this example, which of the following is the dependent variable?

Which group was underrepresented in Kinsey's sample?

Which of the following is an accurate observation about convenience samples in sex research, such as that used in the Janus report?

The most difficult part of the sampling procedure in sex research is:

Correlational studies can tell us: