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Human Sexual Behavior
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Women's & Gender Studies
Undergraduate 2
07/10/2007

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sex information/advice genre
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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.
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objectivity
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the observation of things as they exist in reality as opposed t oour feelings of beliefs about them
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value judgments
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evaluations based on moral or ethical standards rather than objective ones.
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cultural relativity
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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.
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opinion
Definition
an unsubstantiated belief or conclusion about what seems to be true according to our thoughts.
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bias
Definition
a personal leaning or inclination
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stereotype
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a set of simplistic, rigidly held, overgeneralized beliefs about an individual, a group of people, an idea, and so on.
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schema
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a way in which we organize knowledge in our thought process
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attitude
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a predisposition a person has to act, think, or feel a certain way.
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behavior
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the way a person acts
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egocentric fallacy
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the mistaken belief that our own personal experience and values generally are held by others
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ethnocentric fallacy
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the belief that our own ethnic group, nation, or culture is innately superior to others
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induction
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drawing a general conclusion from specific facts
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informed consent
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the full disclosure to an individual of the purpose, potential risks, and benifits of participating in a research project
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pathological behavior
Definition
unhealthy or diseased behavior
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plethysmographs
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devices attacked to the genitals to measure physiological response
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strain gauge
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a device resembling a rubber band
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Rigiscan
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the most commonly used deivce to measure male repsonse
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Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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1840-1902, a viennese professor of psychiatry. Published Psychopathia Sexualis in 1886. invented the word sadomasochism and transvestite. Blamed everything on Masturbation
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