TEST BANK FOR HUMAN SEXUALITY SELF, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE, 1ST EDITION, BY GILBERT HERDT, NICOLE POLEN PETIT
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,CHAPTER 1: THE STUDY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
True/False Questions
1. Sexuality has an impact on both our physical and emotional state.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Sexual Literacy
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Sexual Literacy
2. One cannot become sexually literate without having sex.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Sexual Literacy
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Becoming Sexually Literate
3. When people are comfortable talking about sex and actual sexual relations, they use
more risky behavior when having sex.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Sexual Literacy
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Becoming Sexually Literate
4. Purpose in life weakens our belief in love and romantic relationships.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Hard
Topic: Sexual Literacy
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Sexual Well-Being
5. In the beginning, sexology was all about the study of sexual diversity.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Sexual Science-An Historical Perspective
Blooms: Remember
Heading: Sexual Science-An Historical Perspective
6. Freud treated sex as a fundamental part of human nature and not as an underlying
mental disorder.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Hard
Topic: Sexual Science-An Historical Perspective
Blooms: Remember
Heading: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
7. Masters and Johnson’s research proved that the only real orgasm for women is in
,the vagina.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Sexual Science-An Historical Perspective
Blooms: Remember
Heading: William Masters and Virginia Johnson
8. At present, oral and anal sexual practices vary considerably between Whites,
African Americans, and Hispanics.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Sexual Science-An Historical Perspective
Blooms: Remember
Heading: National Health and Social Life Survey
9. Sex research cuts across several scientific and social scientific disciplines.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
10. The study of sexuality involves biological, social, psychological, and health
sciences.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Remember
Heading:അ Interdisciplinary Perspectives
11. The biological and evolutionary perspectives on sexuality contradict each other.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Hard
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
12. Qualitative research methods focus on gathering numeric information or
nonnumeric information that is easily encoded into a numeric form.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Remember
Heading: Research Designs
13. In the context of quantitative research, independent variable is the variable that is
measured.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
, Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Research Designs
14. The main advantage of case study research in sexuality is that it is easy to
generalize the results to a large population.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Case Study
15. One of the disadvantages of face-to-face interviews is that they demand for a
significant time investment.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Surveys and Interviews
16. Internet questionnaires are losing its popularity in sex research as it is relatively
very expensive.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Remember
Heading: Surveys and Interviews
17. In the context of direct observation, reliability of data decreases with more
representative samples.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Direct Observation
18. Experimental studies prevent researchers from drawing conclusions about cause
and effect relationships among the variables of interest.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
Blooms: Understand
Heading: Experiments
19. PAR is a way to build and strengthen sexual well-being in communities by
increasing people’s understandings of each other’s sexual lives.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Hard
Topic: Methodology in Studying Sexuality
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