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Sex Negativity

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belief that sex is inherently bad

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Sex Positivity

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In doing so allows us to stop questioning our own normality

it looks like changing the way we speak and clarity in language and meaning

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Sources of Knowledge

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parents
friends
books and pictures
movies and TV

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Career Based

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sexuality is a central part of who we are

intergrating knowledge

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Gender

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the constellation of cognitive, behavioural and personality traits that different between the sexes

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Sexuality

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is defined as an integral part if the personality of everyone: man, women and child it is a basic need and aspect of being humans that cannot be sepearted from other aspects of life

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Sex is about relationships

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  1. sexual relationships are diverse
  2. real sexual relationships are not ideal relationships
  3. sexual behaviour and relationships take place in a moral context
  4. media context
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To evaluate accuracy you would

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check sources
look at more credible sources
primary sucess

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Social Comparison Theory (1954, Festinger)

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people learn about their own abilities and attitudes by comparing themselves to other people

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4 types of descriptive research

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  1. Naturalistic Observation
  2. Lab Observation
  3. Case Studies
  4. Surverys and interviews
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experimental research

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random assignment group, manipulations and control groups

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Theory

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consists of a set of ideas or concepts that are used to explain a set of observed facts

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Sociobology

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the hypothesis that evaluation has shaped human and animal behaviour

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Evolutionary Psychology

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according to this theory because me and women play very different biological roles in reproduction they also have different strategies for passing on their genes
also suggests that men and women will be attracted to different attributes in their mating partners

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Erotic Plasticity

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refers to the influence of social and cultural forces on sex drive and expression of sexual behaviour

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Evidence shown:

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  1. individual women show greater variation than men in sexual behaviour
  2. women seem to be more responsive then men to most specific cultural factors
  3. Men’s sexual behaviour is more consistent with their sexual attitudes than women
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psychoanalysis

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developed by freud who believed that we are all born with biologically based sex drives that must be channelled through socially approved outlets if family and social life are to carry on without undue conflict

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erogenous zones

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the ideas that many parts of the body not just the genitals are responsive to sexual stimulation

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psychosexual development

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where by children undergo five stages corresponding to the main erogenous zones (oral,anal, phallic, latency and genitals)

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learning theories

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incoporated behaviourist and cognitive approaches

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behaviourism

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originated with scholars such as watson and skinners who emphasized the importance of studying observable behaviours and the role of rewards and punishments in the learning process

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social learning theory

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explains behaviour as a cognitive process that takes place in a social enviornment

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social cognitive theory

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is an expansion of social learning, it describes learning as taking place through continuous interactions between, behaviour the enviornment and cognition

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sexual script theory

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suggests that as we grow up we learn scripts from our social environment for how men and women should behave sexually

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social exchange theory

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has been utilized to study sexuality within relationships and consists of 3 basic assumptions:

  1. social behaviour is a series of exchanges
  2. individuals attempts to maximize their rewards and minimize the cost
  3. when individuals receive rewards from others, they feel obligated to reciporocate
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feminist theory

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explores inequalities in gender and gender relations: analyze the relationship between sexism, heterosexism, racism and class oppression and explore means of resistance on individual and societal levels

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Steps to answer psychological questions

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  1. formulating a research questions
  2. framing the research question in the form of a hypothesis
  3. testing the hypothesis
  4. drawing the conclusion
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quantitive research

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emphasizes systematic investigation and the use of objective measure

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statistical significance

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to indicate that a difference or relationship between variable exists and that it isn’t occuring by chance

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qualitative research

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is often conducted with the aim of understanding a phenomenon

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8 different variables of gender

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  1. gonadal gender
  2. prenatal hormonal gender
  3. prenatal & neonatal brain differentiation
  4. internal organ
  5. external genital apperance
  6. pubertal hormonal gender
  7. assigned gender
  8. gender identity
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Two of the most common conditions:

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congaital adrenal hyperplasia (CHA) and condrogon insasitority syndrome

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Intersex

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is a term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definition of a male or female

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Triangular theory of love

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Dr. Sternberg
3 fundamental components: Intimacy, passion and commitment
evidence: commitment increases as relationships progresses, behavioural intimacy decreases as familiarity increases, intimacy most closely related to sexual behaviour
scientific support: global study, 25 different countries, n=7332 individuals in relationships

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Attachment Theory & Love

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early attachment patterns seem to mirror adult romances

4 attachment styles: secure, preoccupied, dismissing and fearful

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Love as a story

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stories show our beliefs about love and relationships

these stories shape our beliefs because they are more than just stories, they give us guidance to life

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What are the 3 ways to measure Sexual Orentation

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attractions
identity
behaviour

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gender identity

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psychological perception/personal sense of being

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sexual orentation

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direction of one’s erotic attractions

40
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sexual identity

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how one defines oneself sexually, sense of their sexual anatomy

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Kinsey study findings

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37% of all men have had same sex experince at least once in their adulthood
13% in women
depends on the definition we use

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NHSLS & CCHS (partners, sexual idenitiy, sexual attraction)

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CCHS 18-60 year olds

NHSLS: 93% and 95% only opposite gender

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Typological Conceptualization

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  1. the typology: heterosexual and homosexual (two distinct categories)
  2. kinsey’s continuum: conceptualize it differently, there are variations on a continuum
  3. two dimensional schema (storm 1980) (high/low heteroticism and homotroticism
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CDC 2019 findings

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seems to be a rise in identification of lgtqb+ high schoolers asking behaviour and identity
2015-2017 GLB increased from 8.3% to 11.1%
girls > boys
in 2019 more girls are more likely to identify as GLB then boys
no statstical change in same sex identity, behaviour does not change

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things to understand attitudes in culture

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