Chapter 1 - What is Human Sexuality?

Question 1

Gender

Answer 1

The behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically involved with one sex.

Question 2

Gender Roles

Answer 2

Complex clusters of ways in which males and females are expected to behave within a given culture.

Question 3

Human Sexuality

Answer 3

The ways in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.

Question 4

Values

Answer 4

The qualities in life that are deemed important or unimportant, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.

Question 5

Phallic Worship

Answer 5

Worship of the penis as a symbol of generative power.

Question 6

Phallic Symbol

Answer 6

An image of the penis.

Question 7

Incest Taboo

Answer 7

The prohibition against intercourse and reproduction among close blood relatives.

Question 8

Bisexual

Answer 8

Sexually responsive to either gender.

Question 9

Pederasty

Answer 9

Sexual love of boys.

Question 10

Courtesan

Answer 10

A prostitute - especially the mistress of a noble or wealthy man.

Question 11

Concubines

Answer 11

A secondary wife, usually of inferior legal and social status.

Question 12

Bestiality

Answer 12

Sexual relations between a person and an animal.

Question 13

Sadism

Answer 13

The practice of achieving sexual gratification through hurting or humiliating others.

Question 14

Fellatio

Answer 14

A sexual activity involving oral contact with the penis.

Question 15

Cunnilingus

Answer 15

A sexual activity involving oral contact with the female genitals.

Question 16

Fornication

Answer 16

Sexual intercourse between people who are not married to one another.

Question 17

Evolution

Answer 17

The development of a species to its present state, which is believed to involve adaptions to its environment.

Question 18

Natural Selection

Answer 18

The evolutionary process by which adaptive traits enable members of a species to survive to reproductive age and transmit these traits to future generations.

Question 19

Mutation

Answer 19

A random change in the molecular structure of DNA.

Question 20

Genes

Answer 20

The basic unit of heredity, which consists of chromosomal segments of DNA.

Question 21

Chromosomes

Answer 21

The rodlike structures that reside in the nuclei of every living cell and carry the genetic code in the form of genes.

Question 22

DNA

Answer 22

Deoxyribonucleic acid - the chemical substance whose molecules make up genes and chromosomes.

Question 23

Psychoanalysis

Answer 23

The theory of personality originated by Sigmund Freud, which proposes that human behavior represents the outcome of clashing inner forces.

Question 24

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 24

In psychoanalytic theory, automatic processes that protect the ego from anxiety by disguising of ejecting unacceptable ideas and urges.

Question 25

Repression

Answer 25

The automatic ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from consciousness.

Question 26

Erogenous Zones

Answer 26

Parts of the body, including but not limited to the sex organs, that responsive to sexual stimulation.

Question 27

Psychosexual Development

Answer 27

In psychoanalytic theory, the process by which sexual feelings shift from one erogenous zone to another.

Question 28

Oedipus Complex

Answer 28

In psychoanalytic theory, a conflict of the phallic stage in which a boy wishes to possess his mother sexually and perceives his father as a rival in love.

Question 29

Behaviorists

Answer 29

Learning theorists who argue that a scientific approach to understanding behavior must refer only to observable and measurable behaviors.

Question 30

Coitus

Answer 30

Sexual intercourse.

Question 31

Social-Cognitive Theory

Answer 31

A cognitively oriented learning theory in which observational learning, values, and expectations play key roles in determining behavior.

Question 32

Feminist Theory

Answer 32

A theory that challenges acceptance of the male as the norm, traditional gender roles, and male oppression of females.

Question 33

Queer Theory

Answer 33

A theory that challenges hetreronormativity and heterosexism.

Question 34

Homophobia

Answer 34

Hatred of homosexuals.

Question 35

Principles of Critical Thinking

Answer 35

1. Be skeptical
2. Examine definitions of terms
3. Examine the assumption or premises of arguments.
4. Be cautious in drawing conclusions from evidence.
5. Consider alternative interpretations of research evidence.
6. Consider the kinds of evidence on which conclusions are based.
7. Do not oversimplify.
8. Do not overgeneralize.

Question 36

Stone Age art suggests that people worshiped ______.

Answer 36

Women’s ability to bear children.

Question 37

The ancient ______ were first to produce a sex manual.

Answer 37

Chinese

Question 38

According to the text, _________ challenged the prevailing British view by arguing that sexual desires in women were natural and healthy.

Answer 38

Havlock Ellis

Question 39

A controversal Freudian belief is that _________.

Answer 39

Children normally harbor erotic interests.

Question 40

Masters and Johnson are best known for using _______ in their research on human sexual response.

Answer 40

The laboratory-observation method.

Question 41

Queer theories oppose _______.

Answer 41

Heterosexism.

Question 42

According to _______ theory, children acquire the gender roles deemed appropriate in a society through reinforcement and observational learning.

Answer 42

Social-cognitive.

Question 43

Psychopathia Sexualis was written by _______.

Answer 43

Richard von Krafft-Ebing.

Question 44

According to the queer theory ______.

Answer 44

Current categories of sexual orientation do not adequately describe all people.