Volunteer Bias, Cougars & Operational Definition

Question 1

what is an issue in all of research where on average the bias is towards people who are?

Answer 1

• higher IQ
• Social economic status
• social approval

Question 2

who are bad subjects to use in research

Answer 2

university students

Question 3

Tony Bogart did a personality study on only men what was the experiment?

Answer 3

asked men if they masturbate and then changed the wording and said asked the men since it’s normal to masturbate do you masturbate and the results went from 50% to 80%

he removed hear of seeming non normative and got 80%

part of the difference may be purposeful distortion (purposely giving false information) and not real behaviour difference

Question 4

what was the takeaway from Tony Bogarts study?

Answer 4

the question of whether there answers given for each question is if its real differences or a willingness to admit? you will never know

Question 5

what was Morokoffs study for only women?

Answer 5

he did a 2 part questionnaire just for women the first part was asking a sex questionnaire and the second part was inserting a device for arousal just for women

Question 6

what is a plethysmograph? and what a photoplethysmography?

Answer 6

plethysmograph goes around the penis to measure how aroused men get and a photoplethysmography is inserted in the women and takes pictures of light sensitivity (if its darker women are more aroused)

Question 7

which part of the Morokoffs study were sex volunteers?

Answer 7

everyone who did the first part were sex volunteers

Question 8

which percentage of women did the second part of Morokoffs experiment?

Answer 8

67% or 2/3rd

Question 9

How were the three reasons the volunteers for the Morokoff experiment different?

Answer 9

1. more sexual experience
2. more masturbation
3. more unusual sex

Question 10

in the Morokoff experiment was were the three things considered unusual sex?

Answer 10

1. same sex
2. orgasm through vibrators
3. rear entry (not anal; denial-vaginal doggy style)

Question 11

It was said that being a cougars means you die younger, is this true? and why?

Answer 11

this is not true cougars have type a personality. Type A personality is correlated to heart disease. This is because of third variable problem: Type A personality is the third variable

Question 12

what is the operational definition

Answer 12

to describe what you are measuring and how you are measuring it

Question 13

what is interrater reliability

Answer 13

when two more people are rating the same thing and they give similar answers

Question 14

What were the three results that were suprising in the American version?

Answer 14

1. what percentage of Americans think oral sex is sex? 40.2% majority of Americans did not think oral sex was sex
2. anal sex? 20% of people thought anal sex wasn’t sex (because of homophobia, religious reasons)
3. Penal-vaginal (gay and lesbians are not part of the wheel house)

Question 15

In the 2010 Kinsey paper, what excuses have women use ti say they hav’t had sex?

Answer 15

• emotions/emotional intimacy/love
• no orgasm
• too short (time)
• with condom
• if its anal (can’t procreate)