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52 Cards in this Set

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Most young people turn to _____ and _____ for info about sex, but much of what they learn is incorrect
Friends & Media
Surveys indicate that more than _____% of Americans favor sexuality education in school
85%
Sex is only a part of ____, which encompasses all of the sexual attitudes, feelings, and behaviors associated with being human.
Sexuality
The idea that the primary purpose of sex is for procreation originally came from _____, but they also had a very positive attitude about their bodies and sexual pleasure between husbands and wives.
The Biblical Hebrews
The early _____ affirmed that procreational purpose of sex, but completely denied its pleasurable aspects
Christians
The biggest proponent of this view within Christianity was ______
Saint Augustine
In Western culture, negative attitudes abotu sex reached their zenith during the reign of _____ of England.
Queen Victoria
With the availability of _____ during WW2 and the marketing of ______ in 1960, the United States entered the sexual revolution
Penicillin
Birth control pill and IUD
The manner in which society shapes behaviors and attitudes is called ______.
Socialization
Many advertisements, whether on tv or in magazines, provide little product info, but instead use sex to sell their products in a process called ______.
Identification
The media in ______ show more nudity than in the U.S., but teenage pregnancy rate is much lower
Europe
Who emphasized the sexuality of all people, including children?
Sigmund Freud
Who published seven volumes about the psychology of sex
Henry Havelock Ellis
Who did some of the first large-scale surveys?.
Alfred Kinsey
Who published their physiological investigations of human sexual behavior in 1966.
Masters and Johnson
The old testament presents a positive view of sex within marriage
True
American sexual behaviors are considered to be the norm by the rest of the world
False
Because of AIDS, all states now require that pubic schools offer education about sexually transmitted infections.
False
The larger the number of people in a survey, the more accurate it always is
False
All cultures consider women's breasts to be highly erotic.
False
Kissing is one sexual behavior that is done worldwide
False
One good method of obtaining a random sample is to randomly pick names from a phone book.
False
Half of all Americans will get at least one sexually transmitted infection in their lifetime
True
Over half of all American teenagers have had sexual intercourse by the time they graduate from high school
True
The era of permissiveness known as the "sexual revolution" started during the Victorian era.
False
Kinsey's surveys are a good example of the use of random sampling techniques
False
A strong positive correlation between two variables is evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship
False
Starting in the late 1990's there has been a decline in the percentage of teenagers engaging in sexual intercourse and in teenage pregnancies
True
According to historian Phillippe Aries, the idea of childhood did not exist in medieval society
True
The biological immaturity of children is an irrefutable fact, but childhood is a social concept
True
In some cultures girls are expected to marry and begin having intercourse before puberty
True
School-based sex education is a socializing agent
True
Children who watch a lot of tv shows with sexual content are no more likely than others to have begun sexual intercourse
False
In a controlled experiment, teenagers who had just watched tv shows with a lot of sexual content gave more negative ratings to causal sex than teens who had not watched the programs
False
Victorian-era physician who emphasized the sexuality of children and adults
Sigmund Freud
Viewed sex for procreation as an unpleasant necessity and equated guilt with sexual desire
Saint Augustine
Conducted the first large-scale physiological study of human sexual behavior
Masters and Johnson
They believed that the purpose of sex was for procreation, but had a very positive attitude about sexual relations between a husband and wife
Biblical Hebrews
They believed in an ascetic philosophy: Wisdom and virtue come from denying physical pleasures
Ancient Greeks
Conducted the first large-scale survey of American sexual attitudes and behaviors
Alfred Kinsey
The first major influence on Christian sexual values, he regarded bodily pleasures as evil and thought it "well for a man not to touch a woman"
Saint Paul
A Victorian-era sex researcher with a tolerant attitude about sexuality
Henry Havelock Ellis
They held antisexual attitudes that were reinforced by the mistaken medical beliefs of that time
Victorians
He headed a recent survey of a nationally representative sample of adults living in households
Edward Lauman
Anthropologists believe the most sexually repressed society in the world to be ______
Inis Baeg
Four important influences that led to the sexual revolution were....
Leisure time
Mobility
Birth control
Antibiotics
A random sample is properly defined as a sample drawn from a population in a manner so that _____ has an equal chance of being selected
Each possible sample of that size
__________ believed that intellectual love could lead to immortality
Plato
A major influence on early Christian thought was the Greek philosophy of dualism, which separated ______ and ______
Body
Soul
Victorian physicians called nocturnal emissions _______ because they believed they were caused by the same thing that causes gonorrhea
Spermatorrhea
In the National Health and Social Life Survey "sex" or "had sex" was defined as _______
Any mutual voluntary activity with another person that involves genital contact
______ Has been called "the most powerful storyteller in American culture, one that continually repeats the myths and ideologies, the facts and patterns of relationships that define our world and legitimize the social order"
TV