, Chapter 01
Test Bank
1. According to the text, the term ______ can refer to the state of being male, female, or trans.
A. gender
B. sex
C. sexual behavior
D. sexual anatomy
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate sex and gender.
Topic: Gender
Topic: Sex
Feedback: Sex and Gender
2. According to the text, sexual behavior is defined as
A. the behavior that is chiefly associated with reproduction.
B. the behavior that produces arousal and increases the chance of orgasm.
C. penis-in-vagina intercourse.
D. the sexual activity that is associated with masculine and feminine roles in some way.
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Differentiate sex and gender.
Topic: Sex
Feedback: Sex and Gender
3. Which of the following societies openly acknowledged homosexuality and heterosexuality?
A. the Victorian Europeans
B. twentieth-century Chinese
C. the ancient Greeks
D. fifteenth-century Christians
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Religion
Feedback: Religion
4. For the ancient Greeks, the norm of sexuality in their society was
A. homosexuality.
B. open acknowledgement of both heterosexuality and homosexuality.
C. open heterosexuality and repressed homosexuality.
D. persecution of homosexuals.
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Religion
,C. hidden homosexual behavior.
D. weak control over the body.
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Religion
Feedback: Religion
6. According to the Malleus Maleficarum, the person who had wet dreams was guilty of
A. homosexuality and bestiality.
B. sodomy and witchcraft.
C. incestuous relationships.
D. unsafe sexual practices.
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Religion
Feedback: Religion
7. Which of the following statements is true of religious understandings of sexuality?
A. Fifteenth-century Christians believed that "wet dreams" resulted from homosexual behavior.
B. Muslims have believed that sexual intercourse is one of the finest pleasures of life.
C. The ancient Greeks condemned homosexual behavior.
D. Fifteenth-century Christians believed that a person who had "wet dreams" had great spiritual powers.
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the great world religions view sexuality.
Topic: Religion
Feedback: Religion
8. When the early sex researchers began their work in the Victorian era (the late 1800s), the norms about sexuality were extraordinarily
A. liberal.
B. similar to that of the ancient Greeks.
C. hedonistic.
D. rigid and oppressive.
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Recall the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Sex Researchers
Feedback: Science
9. Which of the following scientists discovered sperm swimming in human semen?
A. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
B. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
C. Henry Havelock Ellis
D. Oskar Hertwig
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Recall 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
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Recall the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Sex Researchers
Feedback: Science
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. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
B. Sigmund Freud
C. Oskar Hertwig
D. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Recall the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Sex Researchers
Feedback: Science
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.
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Recall the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Culture
Topic: Sex Researchers
Feedback: Science
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. Sigmund Freud
B. Magnus Hirschfeld
C. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
D. Henry Havelock Ellis
APA Learning Outcome: 1.1: Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Bloom's: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Recall the contributions of key sex researchers.
Topic: Sex Researchers
Feedback: Science
14. ______ was the author of Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Magnus Hirschfeld
C. Henry Havelock Ellis
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