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| the ways in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings |
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| the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex |
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| complex clusters of ways in which males and females are expected to behave within a given culture |
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| the qualities in life that are deemed important or unimportant, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable |
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| sexual relations between a person and an animal |
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| worship of the penis as a symbol of generative power |
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| sexual intercourse; from the Latin copulare, meaning to "unite" or to "couple" |
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| the prohibition against intercourse and reproduction among close blood relatives |
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| the practice of having two or more spouses at the same time; from the Greek poly-, meaning "many", and -gamos, meaning "marriage" |
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| the practice of having one spouse; from the Greek mono-, meaning "single" or "alone" |
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| a secondary wife, usually of inferior legal and social status; from the Latin concubina, meaning "lying with" |
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| sexual love of boys; from the Greek paidos, meaning "boy" |
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| sexually responsive to either gender; from the Latin bi-, meaning "two" |
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| a prostitute, especially a mistress of a noble or wealthy man; from the Italian courtesan, meaning "court lady" |
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| the practice of achieving sexual gratification through hurting or humiliating others |
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| a sexual activity involving oral contact with the penis |
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| a sexual activity involving oral activity with the female genitals |
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| sexual intercourse between people who are not married to one another; if one of the partners is married, the act may be labeled adultery |
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| the automatic ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from consciousness |
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| a person who engages in the scientific study of sexual behavior |
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| the basic units of heredity, which consist of chromosomal segments of DNA |
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| the development of a species to its current state, which is believed to involve adaptations to its environment |
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| the evolutionary process by which adaptive traits enable member of a species to survive to reproductive age and transmit these traits to future generations |
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| a random change in the molecular structure of DNA |
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| the rodlike structures that reside in the nuclei of every living cell and carry the genetic code in the form of genes |
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| Deoxyribonucleic acid; the chemical substance with molecules that make up genes and chromosomes |
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| evolutionary psychologist |
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| a psychologist who studies the effects of evolution on behavior and mental processes |
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| something that is similar or comparable with something else |
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| the theory of personality originated by Sigmund Freud, which proposes that human behavior represents the outcome of clashing inner forces |
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| in psychoanalytic theory, automatic processes that protect the ego from anxiety by disguising or ejecting unacceptable ideas and urges |
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| parts of the body, including but not limited to the sex organs, that are responsive to sexual stimulation |
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| in psychoanalytic theory, the process by which sexual feelings shift from one erogenous zones to another |
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| in psychoanalytic theory, arrested development, which includes attachment to objects of an earlier stage of psychosexual development |
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| in psychoanalytic theory, a conflict of the phallic stage in which the boy wishes to possess his mother sexually and perceives his father as a rival in love; the analogous conflict for girls in the Electra complex |
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| learning theorists who argue that a scientific approach to understanding behavior must refer only to observable and measurable behaviors |
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| acquiring knowledge and skills by observing others |
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| a cognitively oriented learning theory in which observational learning, values, and expectations play key roles in determining behavior |
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| a theory that challenges acceptance of the male as the norm, traditional gender roles, and male oppresion of females |
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| a theory that challenges heteronormativity and heterosexism |
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| although this term derives from roots meaning fear of homosexuals, it is usually used to refer to hatred of homosexuals |
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| Critical thinking involves all of the following except: |
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A)skepticism B)challenging tradition C)evaluating the premises of logic D) blindly following authority figures |
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| Stone age art suggests that people worshipped: |
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A) women's ability to bear children B) a scientific approach to human sexuality C) bisexuality in men D) men's ability to father children |
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| The taboo against ___ is likely to have been the first taboo: |
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A) masturbation B) incest C) oral sex D) anal intercourse |
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| The ancient ___ were the first to produce a sex manual: |
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A) Greeks B) Romans C) Chinese D) Indians |
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| According to the text, ___ challenged the prevailing british view by arguing that sexual desires in women were natural and healthy: |
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A) Havelock Ellis B) Sylvester Graham C) Sigmund Freud D) Richard von Krafft-Ebing |
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| Which theory proposes that dispositions toward behavior that enhances reproductive success may be transmitted by genes? |
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A) psychological B) sociological C) Feminist D) Evolutionary |
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A controversial Freudian belief is that: |
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A) children normally harbor erotic interests B) children ignore unacceptable impulses C) childhood is an important time of life D) children seek pain and avoid pleasure |
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| Masters and Johnson are best known for using ___ in their research on human sexual reponse: |
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A) correlation coefficients B) cross-cultural methods C) the laboratory observation method D) the survey |
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| Of the following, the group with the highest numbers of sex partners is: |
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A) Asain Americans B) Males C) High school graduates D) 55- to 59-year-olds |
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A) heterosexism B) use of the word queer C) activism D) challenging prevailing views of gender and sexuality |
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| According to ___ theory, children acquire the gender roles deemed appropriate in a society through reinforcement and observational learning: |
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A) evolutionary B) social-cognitive C) feminist D) psychoanalytic |
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| Martino's research finds ___ between listening to sexually explicit music lyrics and sexual initiation at an early age: |
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A) causal relationship B) no relationship C) a connection or correlation D) an evolutionary revolution |
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Psychoipathia Sexualis was written by: |
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| ____ plays a relatively more important role in sexuality as we travel up the evolutionary ladder: |
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A) learning B) motivation C) the genetic code D) biology |
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| According to queer theory: |
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A) there is no such thing as homosexuality B) all heterosexuals are prejudiced C) everybody is bisexual D) popular categories of sexual orientation do not adequately describe the population |
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