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Aaron scores a 6 on Kinsey's scale of sexual orientation. What can you infer about Aaron's past sexual experience from this score?

A) He had more than incidental heterosexual behaviour.
B) He had more than incidental homosexual behaviour.
C) He had exclusively homosexual behaviour.
D) He had exclusively heterosexual behaviour.

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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Anne is being interviewed about her sexual history. She doesn't recall much from her high school years. A possible problem with Anne's data is that it will be affected by ________ ________.

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What research design is useful when researchers wish to summarize patterns of sexual attitudes and behaviour, and/or generate ideas for future research by documenting aspects of sexuality through observation and participants' self-report?

Using video recordings, John Gottman monitored conversations between mixed-sex and same-sex couples at his laboratory. He found that participants' expressions of positive or negative emotion during a 15-minute couple conversation about marital conflict could predict marital outcome years later. During this research, if Gottman had had other researchers working with him analyze the recordings, what concern would he be addressing?

What was one major criticism of Alfred Kinsey's work?

When working with case studies, why is it an issue for researchers that there is a lack of a control group or experimental design?

Which of the following refers to patterns of behaviour that orient a male toward a female before the male becomes sexually aroused?

One criticism of Alfred Kinsey's research on human sexual behaviour was that he focused on ________ and not on ________.

An example of female ________ includes the arching of the back.

The use of a heat-sensing camera to measure blood flow is called ________.

What was the focus of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's approach to sexuality in Psychopathia Sexualis?

Describe the challenges associated with conducting sex research.

The strength of a ________ as a research method is that it allows for the collection of a large amount of information.

The value of ________ research is that it allows you to examine subjective experiences.

The National Health and Social Life Survey found that approximately what percentage of women under the age of 30 experienced pain during intercourse?

If you want to study female sexual arousal using a method that shows results in real time with no delay, which method would you use?

Although Masters and Johnson are often credited as the first to use observational techniques in sex research, there were a number of other researchers who had used this method. What was the actual reason that their techniques were innovative?

Which term refers to a female's approach behaviour in response to contact with a male?

Using standardized procedures to evaluate the causal relationship between two variables using randomization, generally in quantitative research, is known as ___________.

Basia is using a translational model in her research. Which of the following statements is most likely true?