, Chapter 01
Sexuality in Perspective
1. According to the text, the term _____ specifically refers to the state of being male or female.
A. sexual anatomy
B. gender
C. sexual behavior
D. sex
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Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate sex and gender.
Topic: Gender
Topic: Sex
2. According to the text, sexual behavior is defined as
A. penis-in-vagina intercourse.
B. the behavior that is chiefly associated with reproduction.
C. the behavior that produces arousal and increases the chance of orgasm.
D. the sexual activity that is associated with masculine and feminine roles in some way.
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Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate sex and gender.
Topic: Sex
3. Which of the following societies openly acknowledged homosexuality and heterosexuality?
A. the ancient Greeks
B. twentieth-century Chinese
C. fifteenth-century Christians
D. the Victorian Europeans
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Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Religion
4. For the ancient Greeks, the norm of sexuality in their society was
A. persecution of homosexuals.
B. homosexuality.
C. open participation in both heterosexuality and homosexuality.
D. open heterosexuality and repressed homosexuality.
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Bloom's: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Religion
5. Fifteenth-century Christians believed that wet dreams resulted from
A. intercourse with tiny spiritual creatures.
B. hidden homosexual behavior.
C. sexual dreams.
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Religion
6. According to the Malleus Maleficarum, the person who had wet dreams was guilty of
A. incestuous relationships.
B. unsafe sexual practices.
C. homosexuality and bestiality.
D. sodomy and witchcraft.
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Religion
7. Which of the following statements is true of religious understandings of sexuality?
A. The ancient Greeks condemned homosexual behavior.
B. Muslims have believed that sexual intercourse is one of the finest pleasures of life.
C. Fifteenth-century Christians believed that "wet dreams" resulted from homosexual behavior.
D. Fifteenth-century Christians believed that a person who had "wet dreams" had great spiritual powers.
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Religion
8. When the early sex researchers began their work in the Victorian Era, the late 1800s, the norms about sexuality
were extraordinarily
A. rigid and oppressive.
B. hedonistic.
C. liberal.
D. similar to that of the ancient Greeks.
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Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate and critique the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Sex Researchers
9. Which of the following scientists discovered sperm swimming in human semen?
A. Henry Havelock Ellis
B. Oskar Hertwig
C. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
D. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate and critique the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Sex Researchers
10. Which of the following scientists first observed the actual fertilization of the egg by the sperm in sea urchins?
A. Henry Havelock Ellis
, B. Oskar Hertwig
C. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
D. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate and critique the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Sex Researchers
11. Identify the Viennese physician who contributed to our understanding of the psychological aspects of human
sexuality and who is also credited as the founder of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Oskar Hertwig
C. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
D. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate and critique the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Sex Researchers
12. The Victorian era, from which Freud and Ellis emerged, was characterized by
A. sexual permissiveness for both sexes.
B. aberrant and obscene sensuality.
C. sexual repression.
D. sexual fulfillment.
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate and critique the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Sex Researchers
13. Which of the following researchers in Victorian England compiled a vast collection of information on sexuality
—including medical and anthropological information—and can be considered the forerunner of modern sex
research?
A. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
B. Henry Havelock Ellis
C. Magnus Hirschfeld
D. Sigmund Freud
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate and critique the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Sex Researchers
14. _____ was the author of "Studies in the Psychology of Sex."
A. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
B. Sigmund Freud
C. Magnus Hirschfeld
D. Henry Havelock Ellis
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APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
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Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate and critique the contributions of key sex researchers.
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