Chapter 1 - Why a Course in Human Sexuality?

Question 1

Most young people turn to (1) ______ and (2) ______ for information about sex, but much of what they learn is incorrect.

Answer 1

(1) their friends and (2) the media

Question 2

Surveys indicate that more than (3) _______ % of Americans favor sexuality education in school.

Answer 2

(3) 85

Question 3

Sex is only a part of (4) ______ , which encompasses all of the sexual attitudes, feelings, and behaviors associated with being human.

Answer 3

(4) sexuality

Question 4

The idea that the primary purpose of sex is for procreation ( to have children ) originally came from (5) ______, but they also had a very positive attitude about their bodies and sexual pleasure between husbands and wives.

Answer 4

(5) the biblical Hebrews

Question 5

The early (6) ______ affirmed the procreational purpose of sex, but completely denied its pleasurable aspects.

Answer 5

(6) Christians

Question 6

The biggest proponent of this view within Christianity was (7) ______.

Answer 6

(7) Saint Augustine

Question 7

In Western culture, negative attitudes about sex reached their zenith during the reign of (8) _______ of England.

Answer 7

(8) Queen Victoria

Question 8

With the availability of (9) _______ during World War II and the marketing of (10) __________ in 1960, the United States entered the sexual revolution.

Answer 8

(9) penicillin

(10) the birth control pill and IUD

Question 9

The manner in which society shapes behaviors and attitudes is called (11) ______.

Answer 9

(11) socialization

Question 10

There is probably no other socializing agent with as much of an impact on young people’s sexual attitudes and behaviors as (12) ______, especially television.

Answer 10

(12) the media

Question 11

Many advertisements, whether on television or in magazines, provide little product information, but instead use sex to sell their products in a process called (13) ______.

Answer 11

(13) identification

Question 12

(14) ______, who emphasized the sexuality of all people, including children, and (15) ______, who published seven volumes about the psychology of sex, were two researchers of the Victorian era who attempted to counter anti-sexual attitudes.

Answer 12

(14) Sigmund Freud

(15) Henry Havelock Ellis

Question 13

The first large-scale surveys were done by (16) ______ in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Answer 13

(16) Alfred Kinsey

Question 14

(17) ______ published their physiological investigations of human sexual behavior in 1966.

Answer 14

(17) Masters and Johnsons

Question 15

18. The Old Testament presents a positive view of sex within marriage.

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

19. American sexual behaviors are considered to be the norm by the rest of the world.

Answer 16

FALSE

Question 17

20. Because AIDS, all states now require that public schools offer education about sexually transmitted infections.

Answer 17

FALSE

Question 18

21. The larger the number of people in a survey, the more accurate it always is.

Answer 18

FALSE

Question 19

22. All cultures consider the women’s breasts to be highly erotic.

Answer 19

FALSE

Question 20

23. Kissing is one sexual behavior that is done worldwide.

Answer 20

FALSE

Question 21

24. One good method of obtaining a random sample is to randomly pick names from a phone book.

Answer 21

FALSE

Question 22

25. Half of all Americans will get at least one sexually transmitted infection in their lifetime.

Answer 22

TRUE

Question 23

26. Over half of all American teenagers have had sexual intercourse by the time they graduate from high school.

Answer 23

TRUE

Question 24

27. The era of permissiveness known as the “sexual revolution” started during the Victorian era.

Answer 24

FALSE

Question 25

28. Kinsey’s surveys are good example of the use of random sampling techniques.

Answer 25

FALSE

Question 26

29. A strong positive correlation between two variables is evidence of a cause and effect relationship.

Answer 26

FALSE

Question 27

30. Starting in the 1990s, there has been a decline in the percentage of teenagers engaging in sexual intercourse and in teenage pregnancies.

Answer 27

TRUE

Question 28

31. According to historian Phillipe Aries, the idea of childhood did not exist in medieval society.

Answer 28

TRUE

Question 29

32. The biological immaturity of children is an irrefutable fact, but childhood is a social concept.

Answer 29

TRUE

Question 30

33. In some cultures girls are expected to marry and begin having intercourse before puberty.

Answer 30

TRUE

Question 31

34. School based sexuality education is socializing agent.

Answer 31

TRUE

Question 32

35. Children who watch a lot of television shows with sexual content are no more likely than others to have begun sexual intercourse.

Answer 32

FALSE

Question 33

36. In a controlled experiment, teenagers who had just watched television shows with a lot of sexual content gave more negative ratings to casual sex than teens who had not watched the programs.

Answer 33

FALSE

Question 34

37. A Victorian era physician who emphasized the sexuality of children and adults.

Answer 34

Sigmund Freud

Question 35

38.He viewed sex for procreation as an unpleasant necessity and equated guilt with sexual desire.

Answer 35

Saint Augustine

Question 36

39. Conducted the first large scale physiological study of human sexual behavior.

Answer 36

Masters and Johnson

Question 37

40. They believed that the purpose of sex was for procreation, but had a very positive attitude about sexual relations between a husband and wife.

Answer 37

biblical Hebrews

Question 38

41. They believed in an ascetic philosophy: Wisdom and virtue come from denying physical pleasures.

Answer 38

ancient Greeks

Question 39

42. He conducted the first large scale survey of American sexual attitudes and behaviors.

Answer 39

Alfred Kinsey

Question 40

43. A Victorian-era sex researcher with a tolerant attitude about sexuality.

Answer 40

Henry Havelock Ellis

Question 41

44. They held anti sexual attitudes that were reinforced by the mistaken medical beliefs of that time.

Answer 41

Victorians

Question 42

45. He headed the first survey of a nationally representative sample of adults living in households.

Answer 42

Edward Laumann

Question 43

46. Anthropologists believe the most sexually repressed society in the world to be the _______.

Answer 43

Inis Baeg

Question 44

47. Four important influences that led to the sexual revolution were (a) ______, (b) ______, (c) ______, and (d) ______.

Answer 44

(A) leisure time
(B) mobility
(C) birth control
(D) antibiotics

Question 45

48. A random sample is properly defined as a sample drawn from a population in a manner so that __________ has an equal chance of being selected.

Answer 45

Each possible sample of that size

Question 46

49. ______ believed that intellectual love could lead to immortality.

Answer 46

Plato

Question 47

50. A major influence in early Christian thought was the Greek philosophy of dualism, which separated _____ and ______.

Answer 47

Body and soul

Question 48

51. Victorian physicians called nocturnal emissions _______ because they believed they were caused by the same thing that causes gonorrhea.

Answer 48

Spermatorrhea

Question 49

52. In the National Health and Social Life Survey, “sex” or “had sex” was defined as _______.

Answer 49

Any mutually voluntary activity with another person that involves genital contact

Question 50

53. ______ has been called “the most powerful storyteller in American culture, one that continually repeats the myths and ideologies, the facts and patterns of relationships that define our world and legitimize the social order” (Brown, 2002).

Answer 50

Television