Sex research Flashcards
different samples
(3)
- random (equal chance for everyone)
- stratified random (# of them picked based on the portions of the subgroup ratio)
- rep
you would get the best sample if you and the sample kind
1. took the first 100 people
2. put names in a box and pick 100
3. make piles based on sex and pick based on ratio
- convenience
- simple random
- strat random
volunteer v. smapling bias
v: more experienced and permissive
s: low response rate
4 reasons people do not participate in research
- religious (more)
- education (less)
- ethnic minorities
- socio-eco sat (less)
are M or W less likely to volunteer for certian sex research
W
are M or W more likely to show personality diff
M
are M or W less likely to view explicit videos in a study
W
do M or W prefer face to face interviews
W
people refuse to reveal what behaviours
- socially problematic
- unconventional
what survey is easy to do, but are _
- self report
- reliable
- valid
2 reasons data gets distoted in self-reports
- repsond with social desirablility
- respond to defend self image
5 methods to min distortions within self reports
- emph on scientific value is dependent on accuracy
- genuine anonymity
- bogus pipeline tech (fake lie detectors)
- cross check to detect distortions/attention
- ask participant to rate their honesty
what reasons cause innacurate data (3)
- faulty recall
- poor estimators
- painful/unpleasant recall
what is reliability
variable accurately reflects the concept being produced or measured
which tech provides the most valid measure of sexual arousal
1. self report
2. penile/vaginal plethysmography
- self report
unreliable measure are never
valid
what is the prep hypo? what can it affect the validity of?
- vaginal lub production
- vaginal plethysmography
is psychological reliable/valid
is physiological reliable/valid
psyo: reliable but questionable valid
physio: not valid
2 extraneius variables that affect valid/reliable?
- rapport with interviewer
- wording of the question
what is inferential stat
using a sample to test a hypo about a pop
what is a descriptive stat
stat procedure used to summarize, organize, simplify data
it is always considered unethical to deceive participants
1. true
2. false
- true
Ethical research respects the _ and _ of participants and aims to _ harm
welfare, dignity, min
“min harm” meaning
not give participanrs more harm than they usually experience
convergence of results from different methods do what
strengthens confidence in findings as “real”
2 problems with clinical research on sexuality
- sex preference is cultural issue
- not many people in the study and they may not be rep of the whole pop
what are the 4 kinds of observational research methods with sexuality
- natural (bar, dating apps)
- contrived (lab)
- concealed observer (don’t know they’re being observed)
- particioants observer (researcher participates)
most data on sexual conduct comes from _
survey
mail in/online questionnaires are poblematic b/c (2)
- representatives
- bias
what is the most infrequent source of info on sexuality
experimental
what is a cause and effect relationship
when the situation is directly responsible for the effect
what is mundane realism
how similar teh experiment is to the real world
what is experimental realism
situations created in social psyo experiments are real and impactful
true or false; questionnaires can be referred to as experiments
false
