Understanding Human Sexuality 7th Canadian Edition By Janet Shibley Hyde – Test Bank

Understanding Human Sexuality 7th Canadian Edition By Janet Shibley Hyde – Test Bank

Chapter 02

Theoretical Perspectives on Sexuality

True / False Questions

1. A sociobiologist would suggest that the nuclear family structure of a man, woman, and offspring functions positively for reproductive success because it perpetuates pair bonding and attachment between parent and infant.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-01 Describe the concepts associated with the evolutionary perspective.Topic: 02-02 Evaluation of Sociobiology

2. Sociobiology has been criticized since the 1980s for embracing an outmoded and naïve version of evolutionary theory.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-01 Describe the concepts associated with the evolutionary perspective.Topic: 02-01 Evolutionary Perspectives

3. According to evolutionary psychology, successful long-term sexual strategies in mate-selection often are not based on the same criteria used in successful short-term sexual strategies.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-01 Describe the concepts associated with the evolutionary perspective.Topic: 02-03 Evolutionary Psychology

4. According to Freud, the ego develops first, followed by the id and superego.FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-02 State the strenghts and weaknesses of the various Freudian psychoanalytic concepts.Topic: 02-05 Psychoanalytic Theory

5. Freud saw that one of the key factors in the development of the human personality in males was the resolution of their desire to kill their fathers and possess their mothers.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-02 State the strenghts and weaknesses of the various Freudian psychoanalytic concepts.Topic: 02-05 Psychoanalytic Theory

6. The distinction that Freud and many of the followers of psychoanalytic theory have made between a vaginal orgasm and a clitoral orgasm in women is best described as erroneous.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-02 State the strenghts and weaknesses of the various Freudian psychoanalytic concepts.Topic: 02-05 Psychoanalytic Theory

7. If we believe that sexual behaviour and beliefs can be changed at just about any time during our lives rather than in only our childhood, we are adherents to psychoanalytic theory.FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-03 Discuss the concepts of learning theory as they relate to the learning of sexual behaviours.Topic: 02-05 Psychoanalytic Theory

8. Classical conditioning can affect sexual behaviours.FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-03 Discuss the concepts of learning theory as they relate to the learning of sexual behaviours.Topic: 02-06 Learning Theory

9. Social exchange theory sees social relationships as exchanges of goods and services between people.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-04 Show how social exchange theory explains sexual relationships and their satisfaction; stability; and change.Topic: 02-07 Social Exchange Theory

10. The gender schemas that exist in the members of any society respond relatively quickly to change in society and what men and women do in that society.FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-05 Demonstrate the relationship between cognition and sexuality and gender.Topic: 02-08 Cognitive Theory

11. Feminist theory was proposed by a single theorist – the well-known Virginia Johnson is often referenced with her partnership – Masters and Johnson.FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-06 Describe the critical theory perspective; including feminist theories and queer theory.Topic: 02-10 Feminist Theory

12. Queer theory focuses specifically on research relating to sexual orientation.FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: UnderstandLearning Objective: 02-06 Describe the critical theory perspective; including feminist theories and queer theory.Topic: 02-11 Queer Theory

13. For the most part in Canadian society, the institution of religion has had little influence in the shaping of sexual norms because of the emphasis in Canada upon the freedom of the individual to decide what’s best for each person.FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objective: 02-08 Describe the sociological perspective; including the social importance of sexuality and its relationship to the social institutions.Topic: 02-15 Social Institutions

14. According to Symbolic Interaction Theory, people can communicate successfully with one another only to the extent that they ascribe similar meanings to objects and people.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: UnderstandLearning Objective: 02-07 Describe symbolic interaction theory and its relationship to the concept of sexual scripts and sexual fields.Topic: 02-12 Symbolic Interation Theory

15. Sexual behaviour is a result of extensive prior learning that teaches us sexual etiquette and how to interpret specific situations.TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: UnderstandLearning Objective: 02-07 Describe symbolic interaction theory and its relationship to the concept of sexual scripts and sexual fields.Topic: 02-15 Social Institutions