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Details Title: Human Sexual Behavior Description: Midterm Total Flash Cards: 19 Created: 07/10/2007 06:39:39	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term sex information/advice genre Definition a genre that transmit information and norms, rather than images, about sexuality to a mass audience to btoh inform and entertain in a simplified manner. Term objectivity Definition the observation of things as they exist in reality as opposed t oour feelings of beliefs about them Term value judgments Definition evaluations based on moral or ethical standards rather than objective ones. Term cultural relativity Definition an important anthropological concpet involving the positive or negative appropriateness of any custom of activity that must be evaluated in terms of how it fits in with the culture as a while. Term opinion Definition an unsubstantiated belief or conclusion about what seems to be true according to our thoughts. Term bias Definition a personal leaning or inclination Term stereotype Definition a set of simplistic, rigidly held, overgeneralized beliefs about an individual, a group of people, an idea, and so on. Term schema Definition a way in which we organize knowledge in our thought process Term attitude Definition a predisposition a person has to act, think, or feel a certain way. Term behavior Definition the way a person acts Term egocentric fallacy Definition the mistaken belief that our own personal experience and values generally are held by others Term ethnocentric fallacy Definition the belief that our own ethnic group, nation, or culture is innately superior to others Term induction Definition drawing a general conclusion from specific facts Term informed consent Definition the full disclosure to an individual of the purpose, potential risks, and benifits of participating in a research project Term pathological behavior Definition unhealthy or diseased behavior Term plethysmographs Definition devices attacked to the genitals to measure physiological response Term strain gauge Definition a device resembling a rubber band Term Rigiscan Definition the most commonly used deivce to measure male repsonse Term Richard von Krafft-Ebing Definition 1840-1902, a viennese professor of psychiatry. Published Psychopathia Sexualis in 1886. invented the word sadomasochism and transvestite. Blamed everything on Masturbation