Exam 2: Understanding Human Sexuality: Theory and Research

Masters and Johnson gathered sexuality data primarily through case studies.

Where were Morton Hunt's findings on sexual behaviours during the 1970s published? 

Which group conducted a well-known global study of sexuality? 

What is a potential advantage of Internet-based sex research? 

A researcher who wants to study the sexual behaviour of adults in Canada uses a university-level human sexuality class to get participants.What sample method is the researcher using? 

Queer theory supports slow,steady social change.

Behavioural theorists commonly use aversion therapy to change unwanted sexuality related behaviours.

A couple comes to a lab and has sexual intercourse first with no one observing and then comes back and has sex while hooked up to a variety of instruments to measure changes in erection and vaginal lubrication.Who might have conducted the study? 

If Freud is correct,when are sexual urges least important to a child? 

If someone filled out an in-school questionnaire when they were in grade eight and have been interviewed four more times throughout adulthood,which study did they most likely participate in? 

How did the National Health and Social Life Survey of the early 1990s improve upon the results from Kinsey's work several decades earlier? 

Which type of theorist would recommend treating sexual disorders by rewarding desired behaviours? 

What are four common problems to be considered when conducting sex research? Discuss how each one is a specific problem related to sex research.

Early sex researchers from the nineteenth century concentrated on the healthy and positive aspects of sexuality.

What type of theorist conducted the most sex research in the late nineteenth century?