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What does Sigmund believe we all as adults desire?
both the masculine and the feminine sides of their natures
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Even though Sigmund believed all people where born bisexual what did he not believe to be true?
that everyone is bisexual in the sense of feeling the same level of sexual attraction to both genders
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Whar words may people use for sexual idenity?
pansexual or polysexual,
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What does the American Pyschological Association say sexual orientation refers to?
a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions
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What terms does behavorial science use instead of using gender binary conceptualization?
Androphilia and gynephilia
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What is androphilia used to describe?
sexual attraction to masculinity
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What is gynephilia used to describe?
the sexual attraction to femininity
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What does the American Physocological Association say that sexual orientation refers to?
an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes
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What do a lot of cultures use to describe homosexual people?
identity labels
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What are the most used labels in America to describe homosexuals?
lesbians (women attracted to women), gay men (men attracted to men), and bisexual people (men or women attracted to both sexes).
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What do psychologists says sexual orientation can also mean?
a person’s choice of sexual partners
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What does NARTH stand for?
The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality
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What does NARTH consider itself to be?
a "professional, scientific organization that offers hope to those who struggle with unwanted homosexuality,
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What does NARTH disagree with?
the mainstream mental health community's position on conversion therapy
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What does NARTH state is wrong with the mainstream mental healths stand on conversion therapy?
its effectiveness and by describing sexual orientation not as a binary immutable quality
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What concerns did both the American Psychological Association and the Royal College of PSychiatrist have with NARTH?
that the positions espoused by NARTH are not supported by the science and create an environment in which prejudice and discrimination can flourish
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What do the terms andophilia and gynephilia help prevent?
confusion and offense when describing people in non-western cultures, as well as when describing intersex and transgender people
[ "Sexual_orientation\n\nUsing androphilia and gynephilia can avoid confusion and offense when describing people in non-western cultures, as well as when describing intersex and transgender people. Psychiatrist Anil Aggrawal explains that androphilia, along with gynephilia, \"is needed to overcome immense difficultie...
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Why does psychiatrist Anil Aggrawal say androphilia and gynephilia are needed terms?
the affected s
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What can attempting to label members of the LGBT community cause?
confusion
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What does MIlton Diamond say about the terms heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual?
are better used as adjectives, not nouns, and are better applied to behaviors, not people.
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What advantages do the terms androphilia and gynephilia have?
when discussing the partners of transsexual or intersexed individuals
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What has the KInsey scaled been praised for?
dismissing the dichotomous classification of sexual orientation and allowing for a new perspective on human sexuality.
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What has the Kinsey scale been critisized for?
because it is still not a true continuum
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How many categories are used in the KInsey scale?
seven
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In a study by Masters and Johnson what did the find difficult about KIneys ratings?
to determine the relative amount heterosexual and homosexual experience and response in a person's history when using the scale
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What in somebodys past caused problems for the Kinsey scale?
a large number of heterosexual and homosexual experiences
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How many questions does the SASO contain?
12
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What do six of the questions asses?
sexual attraction
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What do the other six questions asses?
four assess sexual behavior, and two assess sexual orientation identity
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What questions corresponds to the homosexual ones?
heterosexuality
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How are the results simplified when using the SASO?
into four summaries that look specifically at responses that correspond to either homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality or asexuality.
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Has the cause for sexual orientation been found yet?
The exact causes for the development of a particular sexual orientation have yet to be established
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What has the research that has been conducted for the influence of genetics made many people think?
that biology and environment factors play a complex role in forming it
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What was once thought to cause homosexuality?
the result of faulty psychological development
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What was found out about the theory of faulty psychological development being the cause for homosexuality?
this was based on prejudice and misinformation.
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What can the scales for sexual orientation be used for?
determining what the prevalence of different sexual orientations are within a population
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What will cause the amount of homosexuality to vary?
which component of sexual orientation is being assessed
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Out of sexual attraction, sexual behovior, and sexual identity which will show more accurately the amount of homosexuals in a population?
Assessing sexual attraction will yield the greatest prevalence of homosexuality in a population
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Which chromosome is responsible for produlcing male differentiation on defect female development?
chromosome Y
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What is the differentiation process driven by?
androgen hormones,
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What results in sexual differences in males and females?
secretion of androgens, that will cooperate in driving the sexual differentiation of the developing fetus, included its brain
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What have scientist began to test due to the fact that adrogen results in sexual differences?
the result of modifying androgen exposure levels in mammals during fetus and early life
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Who created on of the earliest sexual classification schemes?
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
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When did Karl Heinrich Ulrichs develop this classification scheme?
in the 1860s
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Was his classification scheme meant for males or females?
meant only to describe males
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What three categories are used in Ulrichs scheme?
dionings, urnings and uranodionings
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What did these three categories correspond with?
the categories of sexual orientation used today:
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What did both Weinrich and Weinberg critisize the KInsey scale for?
lumping individuals who are different based on different dimensions of sexuality into the same categories.
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What caused valuable information to be lost while using the KInsey scale?
collapsing the two values into one final score
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Why was collapsing the two values into one score a problem?
A person who has only predominantly same sex reactions is different from someone with relatively little reaction but lots of same sex experience
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How could Kinsey have avoided losing this crucial information?
to have measured the two dimensions separately and report scores independently to avoid loss of information
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Besides behavior and reactions what else could have been used in the KInsey scale?
one could also assess attraction, identification, lifestyle
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What questions did Sell consider the most important on the KInsey scale?
those assessing sexual attraction
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Why did Sell consider the questions regarding sexual attraction the most important?
sexual attraction is a better reflection of the concept of sexual orientation
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Rather than define sexual orientation as sexual idenity or behavior what did Sell define it as?
extent of sexual attractions toward members of the other, same, both sexes or neither
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What is a huge concern for SASO?
the reliability and validity remains largely unexamined.
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What reflects the prevalence rates varying?
people's inconsistent responses to the different components of sexual orientation within a study and the instability of their responses over time
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What does it mean when someones sexualiity is fluid?
such that one's sexual orientation is not necessarily stable or consistent over time but is subject to change throughout life.
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What did Diamond find about the women?
over 7 years 2/3 of the women changed their sexual identity at least once,
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What did women acknowledge who considered themselves as lesbian or bisexual?
the possibility for future same sex attractions and/or behaviour
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What makes it difficult to determine if someone is homosexual or not?
individuals classified as homosexual in one study might not be identified the same way in another depending on which components are assessed
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Why do researches in homosexual studies argued that it is a social and historical constuction?
Because sexual orientation is complex and multi-dimensional
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Which philosopher argued homosexuality did not exist as an idenity in the eighteenth century?
Michel Foucault
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In what year did Michel Foucalt publish The History Of Sexuality?
1976
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What did he state was an invention of the modern state?
'Sexuality
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What was a crime in the eighteenth century that could cause severe punishment but was mostly ignored?
Sodomy
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What do some researchers argue about the idea of sexual orientation?
the concept may not apply similarly to men and women
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What have studies found about women and their believed sexual orientations?
female-female, male-male and male-female sexual activity (oral sex or penetration), have patterns of arousal which do not match
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What did the studies reveal about men and their declared sexual preference?
men's sexual arousal patterns tend to be more in line with their stated orientations,
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What does research show about sexual orientation?
is independent of cultural and other social influences
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What can being openly gay be hindered by?
homophobic/hetereosexist settings.
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What social systems can greatly influence someone realization of their sexual preference?
religion, language and ethnic traditions
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What group of the LGBT community are the most researched?
white, middle-class, well-educated
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What does the american culture put a large emphasis on?
individual attributes, and views the self as unchangeable and constant.
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What is a common way to determine a persons sexuality?
according to their sexual role (active/passive; insertive/penetrated)
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When deteerming sexual preference this way what is the passive role associated with?
femininity and/or inferiority
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When determining sexual preference this way what is the active role associated with?
masculinity and/or superiority
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How much is known about lesbians and bisexual women in these cultures?
Little
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What do researchers generally believe causes sexual orientation?
a combination of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences
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What biological factors do they believe plays a complicated part in sexual orientation?
a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment, they favor biological models for the cause
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What do they believe about sexual orientation?
not a choice, and some of them believe that it is established at conception.
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What differences hace scientist found in certain studies?
statistical biological differences between gay people and heterosexuals
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What can these results be caused from?
the same underlying cause as sexual orientation itself
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What concept is sexual orientation argued as?
a concept that evolved in the industrialized West
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What is causing contreversy as to the concept of sexual orientation?
the universality of its application in other societies or cultures
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What is the notion of sexual orientation in west defined as?
as a biological phenomenon rather than a social construction specific to a region and period
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What does Bruce criticize the labels heterosexual and homsexual as?
confusing and degrading
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What does Bruce Bagemilh write about the labels homosexual and heterosexual terms?
. These labels thereby ignore the individual's personal sense of gender identity taking precedence over biological sex, rather than the other way around
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What does Bagemihl say a major issue with this terminology is?
it easy to claim transsexuals are really homosexual males seeking to escape from stigma.
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What can impact accurately assesing sexual identity?
sexual orientation and sexual orientation identity are not distinguished
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What does the Centre For Addiction and Mental heal along with the American Psychiatric association state about sexual orientation?
sexual orientation is innate, continuous or fixed throughout their lives for some people, but is fluid or changes over time for others,
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What does the American Psychological Assocation distinguish between?
sexual orientation (an innate attraction) and sexual orientation identity (which may change at any point in a person's life).
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What does the FBO effect stand for?
fraternal birth order
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What does this theory entail?
prenatal origin, although no evidence thus far has linked it to an exact prenatal mechanism
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What does research show about the FBO effect?
this may be of immunological origin, caused by a maternal immune reaction against a substance crucial to male fetal development during pregnancy,
[ "Sexual_orientation\n\nKnown as the fraternal birth order (FBO) effect, this theory has been backed up by strong evidence of its prenatal origin, although no evidence thus far has linked it to an exact prenatal mechanism. However, research suggests that this may be of immunological origin, caused by a maternal immu...
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What does MIH stand for?
maternal immunization hypothesis
[ "Sexual_orientation\n\nKnown as the fraternal birth order (FBO) effect, this theory has been backed up by strong evidence of its prenatal origin, although no evidence thus far has linked it to an exact prenatal mechanism. However, research suggests that this may be of immunological origin, caused by a maternal immu...
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What does BBB stand for?
blood/brain barrier
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What other name does the KInsey scale go by?
Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale
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When was the KInsey scale first published?
1948
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Why was the KInsey scale developed?
to combat the assumption at the time that people are either heterosexual or homosexual
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