Midterm

Question 1

What are the five types of normal.

Answer 1

subjective
statistically 
Idealistically
culturally
clinically

Question 2

subjectively “normal” behavior

Answer 2

behavior similar to your own

Question 3

Statistically “normal” behavior

Answer 3

whatever behaviors are more common

Question 4

Idealistically normal behavior

Answer 4

have ideal for a norm, measure all deviations against perfection

Question 5

culturally normal behavior

Answer 5

what our culture defines as normal

Question 6

clinically normal behavior

Answer 6

use scientific data to make judgments

Question 7

opinion

Answer 7

a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Question 8

bias

Answer 8

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Question 9

stereotype

Answer 9

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Question 10

objectivity

Answer 10

not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

Question 11

value judgment

Answer 11

an assessment of something as good or bad in terms of one’s standards or priorities.

Question 12

three facts about my culture

Answer 12

culture: the mangaia
1. around 13 or 14 after circumcision ritual the boys are taught how to please a women.
2. after two weeks, the boys have sex with a sexually experience women who then gives constructive criticism on how to be a better lover.
3. On the other hand the women are taught how to move there hips rhythmically in order to achieve multiple orgasms.

Question 13

what were kinsey’s two books

Answer 13

sexual behavior in the human male and sexual behavior in the human female.

Question 14

kinsey criticisms

Answer 14

• only studied white people
• studied people of the middle to upper class under 35
• only talked about the body did not do study of the mind sexually

Question 15

kinsey contributions

Answer 15

• women are just as sexual as men are
• created the kinsey scale and that stated that everyone falls on the scale and very few people are just attracted to one sex or another.
• reported that homesexuality is not uncommon.
• sexuality is a fluid thing over a person’s lifetime and one person can be sexual with just gender one gender during one part of their life and another gender during another. sexuality is not identity.
• a majority of people masterbate
• masterbation is more important for women then men becuase hetrosexual intercorse is not a reliable source of orgasam.

Question 16

Contributions of Masters and Johnson

Answer 16

• made the first comprehensive study of sexuality, including mind and body in laboratory situations.
• studied sexual stimulation with multiple tests
• identified the four steps of sexuality arousal
• sexuality continues as we age
• they also were pioneers in the couples sexual therapy

Question 17

what are the four steps of sexual arousal?

Answer 17

excitement, plateau, orgasmic, and resolution

Question 18

what are the four gender socializers

Answer 18

teachers, parents, peers, media

Question 19

parents

Answer 19

Children incorporate their parents’ views into what they believe as they become adults themselves

Question 20

teachers

Answer 20

Important role models and are often first experience in the world besides parents

Question 21

peers

Answer 21

It is within peer groups that adolescents learn to develop intimate relationships

Question 22

Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love

Answer 22

intimacy, passion, commitment

Question 23

three types of love

Answer 23

liking, infatuation, empty love

Question 24

liking

Answer 24

intimacy only

Question 25

infatuation

Answer 25

only passion

Question 26

empty love

Answer 26

stay together for commitment, for children or for appearances

Question 27

how to manage jealosy

Answer 27

Assess your relationship.
Assess yourself.
Seek out other support.
Recognize your jealousy.
Learn from your jealousy.
Let it go.
Manage your emotions healthfully.
Remind yourself of your positive traits

Question 28

definition of jealousy

Answer 28

Jealousy is a protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship.

Question 29

stereotypes of sexuality and aging

Answer 29

• it isn’t good
• sexuality decreases
• attraction only exists between two young “attractive” people.
• sex is for procreation
• Aged do not have sexual desires as strong
• it is not possible

Question 30

richard von krafft

Answer 30

a viennese professor who was the most influential early sexual researcher. He wrote psychopathia sexualalis which contained case studies of extreme fedishist, sadist masochist and homosexuals. In all of these brutal sexual cases all were committed in connection with these case masturbation which gave fuel to the victorian war against masturbation and which he used words such as moral degragency.