sexuality & psych

Question 1

Conversion treatment?

Answer 1

• Appears not to work and attempts = harmful
• Treatment = immplies diseases and same sex attraction - part of spec of human beh & observed among many rivals
• Similar positions held by other proff bodies representing counselling, medicine and APA in America

Question 2

Legal rights v the playground - Legal Terms =

Answer 2

Discrim against ppl due to their sexuality = illegal (classed as a hate crime)

Question 3

Legal rights v the playground - School Playground =

Answer 3

Homophobic bullying
Anyone can be subjected to it
Lang such as ‘that’s so gay’

Question 4

Section 28: 1988 to 2003) says:

Answer 4

shall not promote the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality thereby leaving teachers unable to stop the bullying or teach diversity (young ppl = seen as vulnerable open to conversion into lgb lifestyle)

Question 5

Historical view on sexuality

Answer 5

Ancient Greece & Roman emperors = were involved / preffered same sex r/s
BUT was punishable by death through the last 1000 years in Europe
but in 1800s intense or even romantic f/s between women (& to a lesser extent men) = tolerated

Question 6

Who was imprisoned for gross indecency?

Answer 6

Oscar Wilde (1985)

Question 7

Inventing the homosexual - historical stages:

Answer 7

1. same sex acts occur but viewed as crimes
2. psychiatry invents the homosexual as a person
3. provided an identity around which homosexuals coalesced leading to lesbian and gay rights protests

Question 8

Most psych ab sexuality = in medical journals during….

Answer 8

1970s = reflect the language of the period

Question 9

The Apa style = refer to marginalised groups using…

Answer 9

their preferred terminology so homosexual = rarely used bc = considered a pathology

Question 10

DSM removed the term homosexual when?

Answer 10

1973

Question 11

When did BPD form a ‘Lesbian and gay’ section

Answer 11

late 90s

Question 12

What did the ‘Lesbian & Gay’ section in the BPS inlcude?

Answer 12

building healthy r/s
establishing identity
homophobia
parenting
cultural diversity

Question 13

BPS positions on LGBT+ individuals

Answer 13

• condemns conversion therapy
• offers advice on avoiding hetronormative assumptions (assuming everyone is straight)

Question 14

How have attitudes towards LGBT changed?

Answer 14

Laws ( civil partnership act 2004, same sex marriage allowed 2013)= enforced to support which meant people showed less -ve attitudes pulicly

Question 15

Subjectivity & Politics

Answer 15

• psychologists = usually aim for STRICT objectivity but they r also ppl w their own attitudes
• Many psychologists will adopt a position e.g feminist, anti racist etc

Question 16

Measuring Prejudice - In order to claim that an intervention e.g contact hypothesis worked - we have to measure prejudice in a before and after type of way - what can be used?

Answer 16

• Surevys / psychometric scales
  = seem objectve
  = Help us make comparisions
  = lots of attitude scales = available

Question 17

IAT (implicit association test) - what is it

Answer 17

a method that uses reaction times rather than self report to measure uncon bias

Question 18

The Hetrosexual questionnaire

Answer 18

• Perspective taking exercise = also satirical
  = takes many qs ab LGBT+ ppl face and inverts them for heterophobic world