Test 2: Sexual Expression

Question 1

Anthropologists Clelland Ford and Frank Beach discovered that…

Answer 1

There appear to be 2 characteristics that women and men universally considered important in sexual attractiveness = youthfulness and good health

Question 2

Males prefer women who are young =

Answer 2

More likely to be fertile

Question 3

Women prefer slightly older males =

Answer 3

More stability and mature and greater resources to invest in children

Question 4

Physical Sexual Attractiveness has…

Answer 4

No Universal Standard; varies culture to culture

Question 5

Sexual strategies theory –

Answer 5

Explanation for human mating; addresses gender differences in relationship (short & long term goals)

Question 6

David Geary

Answer 6

Found that the fundamental differences is that women are more selective in mate choices for both short term and long term relationship given cost of reproduction

Question 7

Views of College Students

Answer 7

“Hooking up” (Mutual attraction/love/dependable character emotional maturity and stability were all rated high)

Question 8

Halo Effect

Answer 8

type of immediate judgement discrepancy, or cognitive bias, where a person making an initial assessment of another person, place, or thing will assume ambiguous information based upon concrete information

Question 9

Sexual Desire

Answer 9

Affected by physical, emotional, and sexual relationship issues (erotophilia, erotophobia)

Question 10

Erotophilia

Answer 10

Positive emotional response to sexuality

Question 11

Erotophobia

Answer 11

Negative emotional response to sexuality

Question 12

Sexual Scripts

Answer 12

Cultural (what is acceptable), Intrapersonal (giving means to the physiological response), Interpersonal (understanding cues of body language, and words of signals)

Question 13

Autoeroticism

Answer 13

Sexual activities that involve only the self (Sexual fantasies, Erotic dreams, Masturbation)

Question 14

Masturbation

Answer 14

Relaxation, Relief sexual tension, No partner, Physical pleasure, Avoid STI

Question 15

Gender differences in fantasies many reflect common sexual scripts that are learned from culture

Answer 15

Can help direct and define erotic goals, Plan for or anticipate situations, Provide escape from a dull or oppressive environment, Bring out novelty and excitement into a relationship, May offer clue to current interest, pleasure, anxieties, fears, problems

Question 16

Touching

Answer 16

Signs of caring and signal for arousal; pleasuring

Question 17

Types of Touching

Answer 17

Kissing, Tribidism, Inter-femoral intercourse, Oral sex, Intercourse, Anal eroticism