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Question 1

Sexual behavior:

Answer 1

Produces an arousal and increases the chance of orgasm

Question 2

Ancient Greek view on human sexuality?

Answer 2

Homo- and heterosexuality. There were creatures made from 2 people, later they were split. And then they are looking for their other half (woman+woman, man+man, woman+man)

Question 3

View of Christians on human sexuality in 15th century?

Answer 3

wet dreams are made by witches who want to seduce innocent men

Question 4

When did scientific study of sex began?

Answer 4

19th century, but major breakthroughs happened in 20th century

Question 5

Freuds view on sexuality?

Answer 5

It is considered both the primary force in motivation of all human behavior and the principal cause of all forms of neurosis

Question 6

4 biggest Henry Havelock Ellis findings:

Answer 6

1) Women are also sexual creatures
2) Masturbation is common
3) Physical and psychological factors play a role in sexual problems
4) Sexual deviations from the norm are often harmless

Question 7

What did Richard von Krafft-Ebing find?

Answer 7

1. Described sexual disorders based on patients’ experiences
2. Coined terms: sadism, masochism, pedophilia, homosexuality, heterosexuality

Question 8

What did Magnus Hirschfeld do?

Answer 8

1. Founder of 1st sex institute
2. Administered 1st large-scale sex survey obtaining data from 10k people on a 130-item questionnaire
3. Introduced term ‘transvestite’

Question 9

What did A. Kingsley do?

Answer 9

1. Founding father of the Institute of Sex Research
2. Kingsley scale measures sexual orientation on a 7-point scale

Question 10

What did Masters and Johnson?

Answer 10

1. Conducted most famous observational sex research
2. Studied the physiology of sexual response and sexual disorders

Question 11

Cultivation?

Answer 11

The view that exposure makes people think that what they see represents the mainstream of what really occurs

Question 12

Agenda setting or framing theory?

Answer 12

The idea that the media define what is important and what is not by which stories they cover

Question 13

Social cognitive theory?

Answer 13

The idea that the media provide role models whom we imitate

Question 14

Selectivity?

Answer 14

The idea that people select and pay attention to certain media content

Question 15

Reinforcing spiral theory?

Answer 15

One’s social identity predicts one’s media use and, in turn, media
use affects one’s identity and beliefs

Question 16

Differential susceptibility model?

Answer 16

Not everyone responds the same to the same media content

Question 17

Ethnocentrism?

Answer 17

-Tendency to regard one’s own culture as superior
-Belief that its own customs are the standard by which other cultures should be judged

Question 18

Cross-species similarities on sexuality?

Answer 18

1) Masturbation is found among many species of mammals
2) Same-gender behavior is found in many species
3) Sexual signaling is found in other species
4) Animals sometimes use sexual behavior for nonsexual purposes

Question 19

Sexual behavior is more instinctively controlled among _____ species and more controlled by the brain in ___ species

Answer 19

1) Lower
2) Higher