Things you should know:
 

• What do the terms sex, biological sex, and sexuality mean?  How are they the same or different?
• Wht are three components of attitudes?
• What does the sexual opinion survey measure?
• What is erotophobia and erotophilia?
• How do erotophobes and erotophiles differ?
• How does our culture influence our sexual attitudes?
• What seems to be the most sexually permissive culture?  What are some of their practices?
• What seems to be the most sexually restrictive culture?  What are some of their practices?
• How has the Judeo/Christian culture influenced attitudes about sexuality?  How have the two cultures differed in thier views of sexuality in their early history?
• What is case study research?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of that type of research?
• What is survey research? What are the advantages and disadvantages of that type of research?
• Why do some believe that it is better to use questionnaires instead of interviews?
• Why do some believe that is is better to use interviews instead of questionnaires?
• What is non-response?
• What is volunteer bias?
• What is a sample? a population?  Why do we want samples to be representative?  How can we obtain a representative sample?
• What is direct observational research?  What are the advantages and limitations of this type of research?
• What is an experiment? What are the advantages and limitations of this type of research?
• What is a variable?  a constant?  What is the difference between an independent and a dependent variable?
• What is the difference between a confounding and extraneous variable?
• What type of research did Kinsey conduct?  How did he conduct it? What made it good research? What were some limitations of Kinsey's research?
• What type of research did Masters and Johnson conduct? How did they conduct it? What made it good research?
• What is a photophethysmograph?  a strain gauge?

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