Sexual Orientation: Gay, Straight, or Bi?
Why is the term gay preferred?
negative connotations to homosexual
Birth order may be related to sexual orientation because with each subsequent male fetus, the BLANK level in the mother's system decreases.
testosterone
Which of the following are crucial to the health of sexual minorities?
1. support from parents 2. support from friends 3. support from adults
What is the prevalence of heterosexuality in gender variant children?
10-12%
The first questioning of one's sexual orientation occurs at BLANK for males and BLANK for females.
12; 15
What percent of women, according to the National Survey of Family Growth, have had at least one same gender sexual experience during adulthood?
14%
How many sexual minorities are seen on television?
15%
According to the survey results, what percent of gay male couples were together for 10 or more years?
18-28%
In 2012 research quoted by the book, BLANK % expressed the opinion that sexual relations between two adults of the same sex are always wrong.
46
BLANK % of women and BLANK % of men said their sexual attraction were exclusively to the opposite sex.
86; 92
BLANK % of LGB adolescents made a suicide attempt compared with BLANK % of heterosexual adolescents.
9.1%; 3.6
According to research, how many men and women have a heterosexual identity?
90%
According to numerous surveys, what percent of lesbian couples have been together for 10 or more years?
Between 8% and 21%
Without a father, what is a likely scenario for Zebra finches?
Bisexuality
What was a common consequence for homosexuals during the time of the inquisition?
Burned at the stake
What is used to describe when you acknowledge to yourself and to others that you are gay or lesbian?
Coming out
What kind of therapy claims to treats gays to help them become heterosexuals?
Conversion therapy
If a person has not told themselves or others that they are a homosexual, what kind of homosexual are they?
Covert homosexual
What term is preferred over the term "homosexual"?
Gay
How do gays compare to straights as far as handedness goes?
Gays are 40% more likely to be left handed
Which website below is mentioned in the text as an internet app helpful for men finding other gay or bisexual men?
Grindr
What event in the 1980s cemented together the gay community as it has never been before?
HIV/AIDS crisis
Which of the following was not a flaw of LeVay's research?
He regularly made up data when it didn't fit with his results
What is the belief that everyone is heterosexual while simultaneously denigrating homosexual people and behaviors?
Heterosexism
What kind of brains are gay male's brains more like?
Heterosexual men
What part of the brain is activated by pheromones?
Hypothalamus
Which of the following is not proposed by the text as an alternative hypothesis explaining the higher rate of suicide attempts among LGB youth compared to heterosexual youth?
Homosexual sex is fundamentally intolerable
In early research comparing homosexuals to heterosexuals, what was the key difference between homosexual and heterosexual comparison groups?
Homosexuals were in therapy, heterosexuals were not
The BLANK scale places sexual orientation on a spectrum from 0 to 6.
Kinsey
Which of the following movements is the Stonewall Tavern riot associated with?
LGBTQ movement
Which of the following is a reason why LBGs have higher depression and suicide rates?
Lack of social support by friends and family
Which fingers have been associated with sexual orientation?
Index and ring finger
What occurs in less gender rigid societies with more permissiveness about sexuality?
Individuals are more free to experiment with same gender behavior
How often is fellatio performed in homosexual acts in Mexico?
It is rarely performed
What is the term for female homosexuals that was named after a love poet?
Lesbians
Besides rigid gender roles, what other characteristics is associated with homosexual behavior in males?
Low paternal (father) involvement
Which of the following descriptions most clearly references an individual's sexual orientation?
Mark is romantically attracted to men and sexually attracted to women
How do men compare to women as far as having homosexuals identities?
Men are twice as likely to have homosexual identities
What is the name of the network of churches that are tailored toward gay and lesbian clientele?
Metropolitan Community Church
What is a common outcome of the harassment of sexual minorities?
Missing school
When testosterone is given homosexuals during treatment, which of the following is more likely to occur?
More homosexual behavior
What is most likely if a parent rates their child as "behaves like the opposite sex" or "wishes to be the opposite sex"?
More likely to have same gender attractions and behaviors
According to the textbook, are gay men more likely to be child molestors?
No - only 2-3% of those who abuse children are homosexual
What color triangle has been used in the gay community as a symbol of pride?
Pink
In the Asian community, how is sexuality of all types generally expressed?
Privately - without a public identity
In what animal did other researchers trying to replicate LeVay's research find similar areas in the hypothalamus?
Rat
According to learning theory, if children are constantly punished for heterosexual behaviors, what might they do to avoid the punishment?
Rechannel it in a homosexual direction
What type of culture is most likely to have homosexuality?
Rigid render role and cultures
Which of the following disorder is less likely to be seen in the homosexual community?
Schizophrenia
BLANK BLANK is the structure of a person's sexual or romantic attractions to people of the same or other sex or toward both sexes.
Sexual Orientation
What term is used to describe changes in sexual attraction, identity or behavior?
Sexual fluidity
What is one's label or self identification called?
Sexual identity
If a Latina identifies herself as a lesbian, how is she likely to disseminate that information to her family and members of her culture?
She is more likely to remain in the closet with those individuals
Who did groundbreaking research on differences between gay and straight men in the hypothalamus in 1991 which has since been discredited?
Simon LeVay
The BLANK tavern riot started the modern LGBTQ movement.
Stonewall
What has been one of the outcomes of intense peer harassment of LGBT's at the college level?
Suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts
What are lesbians most likely to be looking for at a gay bar?
Talking and Socializing
In Rosen's 1974 research, how did homosexuals compared to heterosexuals in adjustment?
That homosexuals had more adjustment issues
As part of the earliest clinical studies, what assumption was made about homosexuality as part of the assessment?
That homosexuals were mentally ill
As part of the earliest clinical studies, what assumptions made about homosexuality as art of the assessment?
That homosexuals were mentally ill
What have the courts often ruled about gay parents after a divorce?
That lesbians and gay men are unfit parents
What do numerous research studies say about children raised by gay parents compared to children raised by heterosexual parents?
There is no adjustment difference between the two groups of children
What have been the findings about the level of testosterone in heterosexual men vs homosexual men?
There is no hormonal difference between the two groups
What have non patient studies generally said about the adjustment of heterosexuals vs. homosexuals?
There is similar adjustment between the two
Lesbian and gay relationships have been found to differ from heterosexual relationships in which ways?
They do not differ
What does the American Psychiatric Association say about conversion therapy?
They oppose them in their entirety
What researcher debunked idea that homosexuals are mentally ill?
Thomas Szasz
What kind of harassment have 55% of lesbian, gay and bisexuals experienced?
Verbal harassment
How did Freud conduct his research on homosexuality?
Via case studies and samples
In the United States, BLANK have the lowest level of antigay attitudes, while BLANK have the highest levels.
Whites; Black
Which of the following chromosomes has not been implicated as having a role in homosexuality?
Y chromosome
Have people been able to replicate the study linking homosexuality to the gene on the X chromosome?
Yes - but most have not
Learning theory believes that homosexuality is:
a normal behavior
The Kinsey scale BLANK.
began a radical reconceptualization of sexual orientation from black and white to a spectrum
Which of the following is not typically stigmatized?
being heterosexual
If a married man has sex with another man while married to a woman, he is considered behaviorally a:
bisexual
Both straight and gay people can perceive BLANK with suspicion, labeling them as fence-sitters, disloyal, or attempting to have the best of both worlds.
bisexuals
Homophobic epithets are an example of:
bullying
The majority of gender variant children:
do not turn out to be gay
Being on the BLANK BLANK is a phrase in African American communities that refers to a man who is in a relationship with a woman but has sex with men in secret.
down low
The case of Eleanor Illustrates that bisexuality has multiple dimensions, including BLANK and physical.
emotional
Gender identity tends to be BLANK while sexual identity tends to be BLANK during the early part of life.
fixed; fluid
At which level is change not necessary for prejudice to be ended against gays?
historical level
Which term is used to describe those who believe that we are all heterosexual?
heteronormative
Someone who is BLANK is romantically or sexually attracted to the other sex.
heterosexual
Fear and hatred that os particularly directed at people who identify as LGBQ is called BLANK.
homophobia
Older theorists and researchers considered it their task to explain BLANK. More recent investigators have focused on explaining BLANK.
homosexuality; heterosexuality
A theory supposes that homosexuality is caused by a variation in prenatal development; specifically, that there is a critical time in which the BLANK differentiate(s) and sexual orientation is determined.
hypothalamus
Studies have shown that a higher percentage of BLANK twins share a gay or bisexual orientation with their twin, whereas a lower percentage of BLANK twins share a gay or bisexual orientation.
identical; fraternal
When do most bisexual's sexual identity become apparent?
into adulthood
Early in the 20th century, what did the medical model say about homosexuality?
it is an illness
The term BLANK is used for women who live a lesbian lifestyle when it is easy in college and then shift to convenient heterosexuality afterward.
lesbian until graduation
An overt homosexual:
lives freely as gay
In laboratory research, BLANK are specific in their sexual arousal, whereas BLANK tend not to be.
men; women
According to the textbook, on average. gay men are (more/less) educated than straight men and gay men earn (more/less) than straight men.
more; less
Currently, which theory best explains sexual orientation?
no theory best explains
What seems to cause the differences in finger sizes in women?
prenatal androgen exposure
Which of the following is another term for lesbians, gays and bisexuals?
sexual minority
An overwhelming number of children growing up in lesbian or gay households have a BLANK orientation.
straight
If a female is born second, third or later, what happens to her odds of being lesbian?
they are no more or less likely to be lesbians
