Human Sexuality 2e, Practice Quiz: Chapter 03

. Dr. Rowe is conducting research on which physical features make humans attracted to one another. Which of the following aspects of her sample is most important for Dr. Rowe's work if she wants her results to generalize to the whole population?

. What is one advantage of the positivist approach to studying sexuality?

. Tanya scored a 0 on Kinsey's scale of sexual behaviour. Based on this score, what can you infer about Tanya's past sexual experience?

. Which theorist developed a sexual orientation scale using qualitative and quantitative methods?

. Which of the following is an advantage of an experimental research design?

. Hannah is a student of Dr. Mercier. Hannah is selected as a participant in a study related to what traits a female finds most attractive in a male at different points in her menstrual cycle. Hannah knows that Dr. Mercier has found that women who are ovulating tend to prefer more masculine traits, and Hannah knows she is ovulating so, without really examining her true feelings, she intentionally indicates that she prefers masculine traits. What type of bias is Hannah exhibiting?

. Quasi-experimental research designs do NOT involve which of the following?

. Which of the following is a new innovation in sexual research?

. What is one advantage of using penile volume plethysmography to study male arousal?

. Women require less mechanical force to perceive touch in which situation?

. Which of the following should be the MOST important priority of a researcher investigating a topic related to sex?

. Who conducted the first physiological research into sexuality?

. Jamie is conducting quantitative research in sexuality. What is one topic he may be studying?

. What is one disadvantage of direct observation studies?

. Allison is asked about the emotional attachment she had to the sexual partners she enjoyed being with most. Allison's reports are all based on sexual experience with only one of her partners because she does not remember her other partners very well. What is one problem with the data that Allison is providing?

. Dr. Eccles is interested in whether there is a relationship between the number of women a man lives with and his average blood testosterone levels. What type of design will Dr. Eccles use?

. What method has the highest risk for demand characteristics affecting research?

. Dr. Stewart was recently criticized for the methodology he chose in an experiment that looked at female subjective reports that arousal and labial bloodflow had a long delay associated with the physiological measure. Which method did Dr. Stewart MOST likely use?

. What is reportedly the most uncomfortable method of measuring male arousal listed below?

. What is the term for a male's approach behaviour to a female?

. What is the main drawback of using the case study method?

. ________ research methods would be most useful for studying a person's attitudes and beliefs about sexuality, whereas ________ research methods would be most useful at aiming to identify causal relationships.

. What do correlational research designs tell us?

. In animals, ________ is a female's approach behaviour in response to contact with a male, while ________ is a female's capacity to engage in copulation.

. Which of the following would NOT typically be used to evaluate a psychophysiological approach to sexual research?

. Positivism is the philosophy underlying scientific inquiry that requires that knowledge based on reproducible experimental verification of natural phenomena, rather than on personal experience.

. Early formal texts on sexuality served instructional, cultural, and religious purposes for the general public.

. Joseph Beck and Felix Roubaud are credited with being the first to use observational techniques to study physiological sexual responses in humans.

. Quantitative research methods explore variation in the individual, interpersonal, and/or group understanding of phenomena by using flexible, open-ended questions.

. The use of audio, video, or digital recording devices by researchers to capture events for review later helps reduce memory bias.

. A responder bias can result from an individual's strict adherence to a specific theoretical approach.

. Archival data-mining involves only quantitative information.

. Brain activity observed during sexual arousal is likely biased by the physical effects of general autonomic arousal.

. Kinsey's studies of human sexuality were based on thousands of personal interviews about sexual behaviours and beliefs.

. The validity and reliability of survey data depend on how well the survey questions are worded.

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