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