Exam #2

While shopping you see a display for perfumes and colognes based on sex phermones. You are interested in enhancing your sex life. Based on what we know from scientific studies, should you make a purschase, based upon information in the textbook?

Yes, studies suggest that most humans have a vestigal VNO that can detect phermones.

Evolutionary psychologists believe that men find younger women more attractive because younger women________:

are more fertile an gave more years ahead to nurture children

Beiber attributed the development of male homosexuality primarily to:

dominate, overly intimate mothers

The term "Hijra and "two-spirit" mean the same thing

false, Hijra- a member of a class male-to-female transexuals in northern India and Pakistan two-spirit person- in Native American cultures, a person with the spirit of both a man and a woman; a transgender person

Researchers have studied finger length ratios in heterosexual and homosexual women because

finger length is thought to be an indicator of prenatal hormone levels

Ryan gets very upset any time the topic of homoseuxality comes up. He rails against the "immorality" of homosexuality and even advocates imprisining gays and lesibians. It is probably safe to say that Ryan, with his strong anti-gay attributes is _________.

homophobic

Neuroscientists studying the brains of heterosexuals and homosexuals often look at the _____ because this region of the brain is involved in reproductive and mating behaviors

hypothalamus

According to researchers in Scotland, seeing a man's face a second time leads a woman to judge him as ____________ attractive than he was the first time. This suggests that familarity _________ attraction.

more; increases

The Masters and Johnsons sexual response model addresses _______ processes.

only physiological

Erection is controlled by the _______ nervous system, whereas orgasm is controlled by the _______ nervous system

parasympathetic/sympathetic

In some indigenous tribes of Iowland South America, such as the Canela, people do not understand that one sperm fertilizes one egg and therefore believe that a child can have many fathers. Although this is biologically inaccurate, it offers the benefit of____________.

producing more male support and protection for children

The term "ethnographic present" discussed in lecture

refers to the practice or convention of writing ethnographic monographs in the present tense

One difference between male and human sexual response found by Masters and Jognson was that men expeience a __________ period while women do not.

refractory

The basic physiological processes responsible for the physical changes in the genitals that occurt during the human sexual response cycle are ________________ and _______________.

sympatheticc nervous system and parasympathetic nerosystem

What is the primary theme of the excerpt about the Trobriand Islanders?

the "proper" way of engaging in premarital relationships

Individuals who experience little or no sexual attraction to others generally consider asexuality to be

their sexual orientation

A determinant of physical attractiveness is the _______ ratio.

waist-to-hip

The modern American gay rights movement is generally said to have begun in 1969

with a riot in response to a police raid on a gay bar in New York City

Men are psychologically and genitally aroused by erotic images appripriate to their sexual orientation, while most women are aorused by erotic images of both women and men. One interpretation of this observation is that

women's sexual preferences are more flexible

List four specific gender signals discussed in the documentaty langauge of the sexes.

1. American women practice gender amplification with silicone breast implants, collagen lip injections and tight high heels. 2. Chinese women used to crush their feet to keep them tiny and delicate 3.Ethiopian tribes women enlarge their lips with ceramic plates 4. Japanese build shrines to the male phallus

Briefly dicuss two criticisms of the work of Masters and Johnson made by physcholigist Leonore Tiefer.

1. Masters and Johnson's research excluded anyone whose pattern of sexual response did not include orgasm, so the model cannot be generalized to the entire population, therefore Tiefer argues that it resulted in a "false universality" of the "cycle" 2. only involves only the physiological aspects, ignoring what the person is thinking and feeling emotionally

Homosexuality was considered to be a psychiatric disorder by the American Psychiatric Assiciation until ________.

1973

Which of the statements about ethnographic research is false?

Ethnographic methods are less likely to provide valid information than surveys

Which of the following shows the correct order of the phases of of the Masters and Johnson sexual response cycle?

Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

According to the Don Kulick, travesties in Brazil say they would certainly end a relationship with a boyfriend if _____________.

He tried to touch her penis

Which os the following people is most likely ot face anti-gay sentiment?

Ibrahim, a gay man who lives in Saudi Arabia

Although they may have exaggerated the frequency of sex they reported to anthropologist Doland Marshall in the 1960's, the inhabitants of _______ have become known as an example of society, in which sexual expression is considered healthy, and one in which men are expected to bring hteir partners to orgasm during intercourse

Mangaia