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A paraphilia:

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Is a response to a socially inappropriate object or situation

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If someone felt assigned to the wrong sex and identified with the other gender, that person would MOST likely receive a diagnosis of:

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Gender dysphoria

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If someone had a sexually dysfunction, we know that this person would not be having difficulty in which of the following phases of the sexual response cycle?

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Resolution

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A man who has never been able to achieve or maintain an erection for sexual intercourse would MOST likely be diagnosed with what type of erectile disorder?

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Lifelong

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If an individual had experienced normal sexual functioning for years and gradually developed a problem with becoming aroused under any conditions, the type of dysfunction would be:

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Acquired and generalized

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If a woman had never experienced normal sexual functioning with her husband and had a problem with becoming aroused with him, but found she could be aroused with other men, the type of dysfunction would be:

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Lifelong and situational

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According to Masters and Johnson, the resolution phase is more gradual and less sudden in women when:

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They do not experience orgasm

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Hypoactive sexual desire may include all of the following EXCEPT:

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Finding sexual activity repulsive

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Some individuals experience a normal interest in sex but choose not to engage in sexual relations. Such people would be diagnosed with:

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No sexual dysfunction

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A woman who experiences little sexual response to erotic cues and physical stimulation is MOST likely experiencing:

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Sexual interest/arousal disorder

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Which hormone can cause decreased sexual desire when present in either low or high levels?

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Estrogen

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Which of the following drugs, used at low level, may raise the sex drive?

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Alcohol

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If a therapist were seeing patients for treatment of hypoactive sexual desire, the therapist would be MOST likely to find which of the following disorders as well?

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Depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder

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If grandma is 90 and healthy, what is the percent chance she still masturbates at least occasionally?

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Over 20 percent

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If grandpa is 90 and healthy, what is the percent chance he still masturbates at least occasionally?

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Over 40 percent

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The following are all examples of sociocultural causes of hypoactive sexual disorder EXCEPT:

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Pain medication

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A recently married, physically healthy man expresses great love for his new spouse, yet feels almost no sexual desire for her. One likely cause of his condition is:

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Belief in a cultural double standard about women

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In males, the penis becomes erect during which phase of the sexual response cycle?

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Arousal

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A woman reports having vivid sexual fantasies, yet is unable to experience either clitoral or labial swelling, or vaginal lubrication. The MOST likely diagnosis for this woman would be:

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Sexual interest arousal disorder

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Which of the following is NOT a symptom of female sexual interest arousal disorder?

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Inadequate lubrication during sexual activity

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In looking for a biological cause of an erectile disorder, one would MOST productively look for a:

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Vascular problem

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A person who (unfortunately) had the following disorders-clogged arteries, diabetes, kidney failure-would be at special risk for:

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Erectile disorder

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A man awakens after eight hours of normal sleep, and has an unbroken "snap gauge" band. There's a good chance that the man has:

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A physical basis for this erectile problem

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According to Masters and Johnson, performance anxiety may result in a man:

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Adopting a spectator role during sexual activity

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Which of the following is a sociocultural cause for male erectile disorder?

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Loss of job

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Which of the following is MOST descriptive of an orgasm?

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Muscle contraction

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A man experiencing the process of erection and partial elevation of the testes is in which stage of sexual response?

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Desire

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In the United States, over the sat several decades, the typical duration of sexual intercourse has:

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Decreased, as has the distress of those suffering from early ejaculation

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William, a 20-year-old who is having his first sexual relationship, has gone to see a sex therapist about a sexual dysfunction problem. What is William MOST likely suffering from?

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Delayed early ejaculation

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Delayed ejaculation appears MOST likely to be caused by disruptions in which of the following?

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The neurological system

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Which of the following statements is MOST accurate about female orgasm?

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Women who are comfortable masturbating are more likely to experience orgasm

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The view that modern researchers hold about clitoral orgasms is that they are:

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As healthy as vaginal orgasms

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In Victorian times, a woman diagnosed as "insane: was presumed to have a dysfunction of her:

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Reproductive organs

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Research shows that parents who want to decreased the likelihood that their young daughters will experience orgasms disorder as adults should:

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Be affectionate with each other

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Women are MORE likely to be orgasmic when they have:

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Had a relatively long relationship with their first sex partner

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Which of the fowl long findings BEST argues against the idea that female orgasmic problems are due to society's message to women that they should deny their sexuality? Many women with arousal and orgasmic difficulties:

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Have a history of rape or child sexual molestation

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What is thought to be the cause of vaginismus (the involuntary contraction of vaginal muscles)?

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Conditioning of a fear response

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A woman's dyspareunia is MOST likely caused by:

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Some physical condition

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What is another name for genital pain during sexual activity?

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Dyspareunia

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What problem did early behavioral therapists focus on when treating sexual dysfunction?

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Fear

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If someone receives "modern: sex therapy, chances are that the therapy will:

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Center on specific sexual problems

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The idea that both partners share the accountability for sexual dysfunction is known as:

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Mutual responsibility

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Couples in sex therapy who are working on eliminating the spectator role, are generally advised:

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To refrain from having intercourse and focus on other body pleasure instead

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In therapy, a patient is taught to visualize sexual scenes and uncover any negative emotions that occur. The therapist is using:

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Affectual awareness

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In treating erectile disorder, the "tease" technique involves:

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Stimulating the penis, but stimulation is stopped once erection occurs

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How does Viagra work?

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It increases blood flow into the penis

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Which of the following is the MOST accurate conclusion regarding the use of Viagra and related drugs to treat erectile disorders?

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The drugs work about 75 percent of the time and are often given without first assessing what is causing the problem

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If during intercourse, the female repeatedly stimulates her male partner up to the point when he almost reaches orgasm and then stops, he is probably being treated for:

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Early ejaculation

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A client receives directed masturbation training and self-exploration instruction as part of the client's sex therapy. MOST likely, the client is a:

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Woman being treated for orgasmic disorder

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Why do people object to the use of Viagra and similar drugs being voluntarily covered by health insurance companies, but fail to object to birth control pills not being covered unless mandated by law?

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The reason may be the sexual double standard; sex is OK for men but not for women

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Which of the following does NOT belong with the others as a treatment for orgasmic dysfunction in women?

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Use of the squeeze technique

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Most sex therapists are uneasy about recent reliance on drug treatments for sexual dysfunctions because:

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The integrated approach to therapy might be ignored

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Most clinicians would agree that paraphilic activities should NOT be considered a disorder when:

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The behavior is part of an otherwise typical sex life

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According to DSM-5, someone who initiates sexual contact with children is:

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Experiencing a paraphilia regardless of how troubled the individual may be

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An anti androgen would be MOST appropriate if a paraphilic disorder is caused by:

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An inappropriate sex drive

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What is the term for the use of and attrition to inanimate objects as a preferred method of achieving sexual excitement?

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Fetishism

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When a detishist imagines the object of the fetish, then immediately imagines an aversive stimulus, the behavioral approach being used is:

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Covert senstization

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A man being treated for a fetish to women's hats first obtains an erection rom looking at women's hats, then begins to masturbate while looking at a picture of a nude woman. At the moment of orgasm, he masks sure to be looking at the picture of the nude women. The behavioral approach being used it:

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Orgasmic reorientation

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"Cross-dressing" is another term for:

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Transvestic disorder

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Terry has been diagnosed as having a paraphilia, specifically transvestic fetishism. Terry is MOST likely to be:

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Male

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Which of the following responses from the person he exposed himself to would be at LEAST satisfying to an exhibitionist?

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Ignoring the exhibitionist

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Which of the following thoughts would most likely be MOST arousing to a voyeur in the act of secretly watching a couple have sex?

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The people would be humiliated if they knew I was watching

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During which period does frotteurism typically develop?

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Adolescence

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In the classic type of pedophilic disorder, those MOST at risk are:

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Prepubescent boys

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Recent studies of pedophiles show that:

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Most have at least one other psychological disorder

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The technique of having a client with pedophilia identify situations in which he performs inappropriate behavior and then teaching him more appropriate coping strategies is called:

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Relapse-prevention training

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Autoerotic asphyxia is a fatal side effect of:

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A masochistic practice

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While inflicting pain, perhaps unintentionally, on an animal or person, a teenage may become sexually aroused and later turn out to be a sadist. The theory that BEST describes this example of the development of sadism is:

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Behavioral

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A man who is biologically masculine but considers himself a woman and would like to live as a woman is:

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Transgendered

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What is the MOST common outcome of gender dysphoria in childhood?

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It disappears by adolescence or adulthood

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Which of the following pains are MOST analogous (comparable)?

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Female-to-male gender dysphoria and male-to-female gender dysphoria: androphilic type

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What do androphilia and autogynephilia have in common?

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Those who are diagnosed are genetically male

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Who is MOST likely to receive phalloplasty?

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Someone experiencing gender identity disorder

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A paraphilia:

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is a response to a socially inappropriate object or situation

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If someone had a sexual dysfunction, we know that this person would NOT be having difficulty in which of the following phases of the sexual response cycle?

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resolution

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In a person who has an unusually long resolution phase of the sexual response cycle, which of the following is MOST likely?

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The person did not have an orgasm

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Hypoactive sexual desire may include all of the following EXCEPT:

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finding sexual activity repulsive.

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To be classified as having hypoactive sexual desire, one would have a reduced interest in sex and have little sexual activity, lasting:

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six months.

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Female sexual interest/arousal disorder differs from male hypoactive sexual desire disorder MOST notably in that it:

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the sexual response cycle

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Some individuals experience a normal interest in sex but choose, as a matter of lifestyle, not to engage in sexual relations. Such people would be diagnosed with:

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no sexual dysfunction

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A sexual dysfunction differs from a paraphilia in that it:

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involves some difficulty with the sexual response cycle

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Which of the following drugs, used at low levels, may raise the sex drive?

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alcohol

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A young woman who formerly had a fairly high sex drive, and who reports no new medical problems, nonetheless experiences an unexpected drop in sex drive. What would be an important question to ask her, before recommending some sort of psychotherapy?

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Have you recently started taking birth control pills

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In males, the penis becomes erect during which phase of the sexual response cycle?

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excitement

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Women with sexual arousal disorder have difficulty with:

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maintaining proper lubrication

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What were once referred to as frigidity and impotence are dysfunctions that occur during the ______ phase of sexual arousal.

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excitement

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Which of the following is NOT a symptom of female sexual interest arousal disorder?

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vaginal contractions that prevent penetration

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A recent study showed that the majority of women in sexually healthy, positive marriages report that ________ is the MOST satisfying component of sexual activity with their partner

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foreplay

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A normal healthy man experiences:

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erections during REM sleep.

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Which of the following occupations is MOST similar to what Masters and Johnson identified as the spectator role in sexual behavior?

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judge

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Which of the following is a sociocultural cause for male erectile disorder?

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loss of a job

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Based on the likely sociocultural factors related to erectile disorders, the BEST advice you could give to an aging couple would be to:

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Provide more intense and lengthy penile stimulation

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Which of the following is MOST descriptive of an orgasm?

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muscle contraction

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According to DSM-5, the cut-off point for diagnosing early ejaculation is within _____ of initiating sexual activity.

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a minute

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Compared to erectile disorder, early ejaculation is:

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common among men of all ages

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In the United States, over the past several decades, the typical duration of sexual intercourse has

answer

increased, as has the distress of those suffering from early ejaculation

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From a psychological perspective, early ejaculation is usually the result of:

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sexual inexperience.

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According to DSM-5, all of the excitement disorders have in common the diagnostic requirement that the difficulty:

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causes significant distress or impairment

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Attitudes about women's sexuality are more liberal now, yet the rates of female orgasmic disorders have remained the same. This trend:

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argues against a purely sociocultural cause of female orgasmic disorder

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Research shows that parents who want to decrease the likelihood that their young daughters will experience orgasmic disorder as adults should:

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be affectionate with each other

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Having a supportive and healthy relationship with one's mother is associated with ______ in women.

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positive orgasm outcomes

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During the young adult years (18-24), which of the following is LEAST common among women?

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not having had heterosexual contact

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During ______, about 90 percent of males masturbate one or two times a week and most have at least two sex partners.

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adolescence

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People experiencing dyspareunia:

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experience pain during sex

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A woman's dyspareunia is MOST likely caused by:

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some physical condition

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Symptoms of vaginismus always include

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involuntary contraction of vaginal muscles

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What problem did early behavioral therapists focus on when treating sexual dysfunction?

answer

fear

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Which of the following would a qualified sex therapist be LEAST likely to say to a client?

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Focus on your performance as if you were a spectator

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Sensate focus‖ refers to the technique in which:

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the sexual relationship is rebuilt, concentrating on pleasure.

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Which of the following does NOT belong with the others?

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sexual aversion

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Which of the following is the MOST accurate conclusion regarding the use of Viagra and related drugs to treat erectile disorders?

answer

The drugs work about 75 percent of the time and are often given without first assessing what is causing the problem. (True Answer )Correct

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In treating erectile disorder, the ―tease‖ technique involves: three or more episodes of intercourse each night for a month.

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stimulating the penis, but stimulation is stopped once erection occurs

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How does Viagra work?

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It increases blood flow into the penis

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Theoretically, why do SSRIs help treat early ejaculation? Men who ejaculate early often become depressed. Incorrect SSRIs reduce serotonin levels, thus increasing arousal.

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SSRIs reduce arousal and orgasm and help men delay ejaculation.

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A client receives directed masturbation training and self-exploration instruction as part of the client's sex therapy. MOST likely, the client is a:

answer

woman being treated for orgasmic disorder

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If someone experiencing female orgasmic disorder asks you what is the MOST effective treatment, you should say

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Learn to masturbate

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A woman who, following directions, is inserting graduated cylinders into her vagina at home is probably being treated for:

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vaginismus

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All of the following are examples of current trends in sex therapy EXCEPT:

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treating only those who do not have other serious psychological problems.

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Most sex therapists are uneasy about recent reliance on drug treatments for sexual dysfunctions because:

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the integrated approach to therapy might be ignored

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Which of the following disorders is NOT listed in DSM-5, but might be in future DSMs, following additional study?

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hypersexuality

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DSM-5 recommends a diagnosis of paraphilia only when associated behaviors, fantasies, or urges last at least:

answer

six months.

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According to DSM-5, someone who initiates sexual contact with children is:

answer

experiencing a paraphilia, regardless of how troubled the individual may be.

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Of the following men, which would MOST likely be treated with masturbatory satiation?

answer

a fetish.

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Which of the following does NOT belong with the others?

answer

orgasmic reorientation

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Cross-dressing‖ is another term for

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transvestic disorder.

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Why are people who go to strip clubs not generally considered to be voyeurs?

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The performers are consenting to being seen by the audience.

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During which period does pedophilia typically develop?

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adolescence

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It's all right to have sex with children as long as they agree.‖ This is an example of the ______ often experienced by pedophiles.

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distorted thinking

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Recent studies of pedophiliacs show that:

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most have at least one other psychological disorder.

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In the classic type of pedophilic disorder, those MOST at risk are:

answer

prepubescent.

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Clients identify the situations that trigger pedophilic fantasies and then learn to avoid the situations or cope with them more effectively. The treatment approach being used is:

answer

relapse prevention.

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The technique of having a client with pedophilia identify situations in which he performs inappropriate behavior and teaching more appropriate coping strategies is called:

answer

relapse-prevention training

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Arnold cannot enjoy sexual intercourse unless he is tied up by his partner and beaten. His behavior is typical of:

answer

sexual masochism.

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Autoerotic asphyxia is a fatal side effect of:

answer

a masochistic practice

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What is the PRIMARY source of sexual excitement for sexual sadists?

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the victim's suffering

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One who is experiencing gender dysphoria:

answer

is unhappy with his or her biological gender.

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What is the MOST common outcome of gender dysphoria in childhood?

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It disappears by adolescence or adulthood

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Which of the following pairs are MOST analogous (comparable)?

answer

female-to-male gender dysphoria and male-to-female gender dysphoria: androphilic type

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What do androphilia and autogynephilia have in common?

answer

Those diagnosed are genetically male

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When people with gender identity disorder take hormones, it is in an attempt to:

answer

facilitate their living as the other gender.

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Who is MOST likely to receive phalloplasty?

answer

someone experiencing gender identity

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Which is not a treatment for pedophilia?

answer

...

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A person may be diagnosed with _____when they experience equal or greater sexual arousal from a prepubescent or early pubescent children than from a physically mature person

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pedophillic disorder

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Which type of cognitive-behavioral treatment has been used to treat pedophilia?

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relapse prevention traning

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Modern sex therapy:

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short term and instructive

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