CH.1 Flashcards
Human Sexuality
Focuses on all aspects of humans ads sexual beings. Sexual anatomy and responses, sexual identity and desires, sexual health and well being and the way we perceive and express our individual sexual selves.
gender identity
your concept of yourself as a man/woman
survey
process of collecting information from volunteer respondents for explaining, describing, or comparing people’s knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. self administered, written questionnaire( most anonymous), face to face interviews, and phone interviews.
Alfred Kinsley
approach provided the foundation for survey research about sexuality. wanted to survey people about their sex lives, created interview
target population
entire group of people being studied in a survey
sample
selected group from target population to study
random sampling
selecting respondents randomly from entire population of interest
self selection bias
people who volunteer to be studied may not accurately represent the population as a whole
observational research
methods that are systematic and organized in order to obtain the most accurate and precise data possible from their observations
Masters and Johnson
watched people have sex in order to see how peoples bodies physiologically respond during sex.
correlational research
how two variables relate to each other
experimental method
bringing together a group of participants and dividing them into 2 groups.
experimental group
group receiving the treatment
control group
group receiving no treatment/ different treatment
independent variable
treatment administered
