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| The practice used in science that relies on direct observation and measurement to obtain answers to specific questions |
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| Research that asks questions like "what are the most common sexually transmitted infections?" is seeking to reach what goal? |
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| Public Health & Disease Prevention |
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| What is an epidemiologist concerned with? |
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| The phenomenon in which people change their behavior because they are aware that they are being observed |
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| The instrument used to estimate a male's degree of sexual arousal by measuring changes in blood flow to the penis |
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| The research method of choice for discovering cause and effect relationships |
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| In 1954, who launched the study that provided the first systematic observations and recordings of sexual behavior, with 155 male and female prostitutes. |
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| What method of research is most popular in sexuality research? |
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| This sex researcher interviewed over 7000 people during his career |
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| According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance system survey, __% of high school students report that they have had sexual intercourse. |
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| He believed that masturbation induced mental and physical problems |
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| A researcher is trying to find out if a diet high in vitamin C affects the severity of premenstrual symptoms in teenage girls, so he gives one group the special diet and the other group a normal diet. What is the independent variable in the study? |
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| Severity of premenstrual symptoms |
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| A researcher is trying to find out if a diet high in vitamin C affects the severity of premenstrual symptoms in teenage girls, so he gives one group the special diet and the other group a normal diet. What is the dependent variable in the study? |
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| What type of research design is preferred for learning details of a rare condition? |
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| What form of gathering subjects for a study will most likely produce results that can be generalized? |
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A correlational design is a true experiment? |
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| Do men tend to volunteer more often for sex research than women? |
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| Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
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| Alfred Kinsey became well known for his experimental research of what? |
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Because Redbook surveyed over 100,000 people, it is the most reliable survey research conducted on sexuality to date. |
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Psychologists can use deception in their research if they determine that deception is justified by the study's scientific or educational value. |
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