Chapter 1
Why a Course in Human Sexuality?
Things you should know:
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What do the terms sex, biological sex, and sexuality mean?
How are they the same or different?
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Wht are three components of attitudes?
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What does the sexual opinion survey measure?
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What is erotophobia and erotophilia?
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How do erotophobes and erotophiles differ?
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How does our culture influence our sexual attitudes?
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What seems to be the most sexually permissive culture?
What are some of their practices?
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What seems to be the most sexually restrictive culture?
What are some of their practices?
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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?
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What is case study research? What are the advantages
and disadvantages of that type of research?
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What is survey research? What are the advantages and disadvantages
of that type of research?
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Why do some believe that it is better to use questionnaires
instead of interviews?
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Why do some believe that is is better to use interviews
instead of questionnaires?
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What is non-response?
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What is volunteer bias?
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What is a sample? a population? Why do we want samples
to be representative? How can we obtain a representative sample?
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What is direct observational research? What are
the advantages and limitations of this type of research?
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What is an experiment? What are the advantages and limitations
of this type of research?
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What is a variable? a constant? What is the
difference between an independent and a dependent variable?
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What is the difference between a confounding and extraneous
variable?
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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?
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What type of research did Masters and Johnson conduct?
How did they conduct it? What made it good research?
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What is a photophethysmograph? a strain gauge?
This is not necessarily a complete list of topics covered.
Please consult your text and lecture notes for omissions.
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