Psychology: Module 14 – Flashcards

If pregnant sheep are injected with ________ during a critical period of fetal development, their female offspring will show homosexual behavior.

Simon LeVay discovered that a neural cluster located in the ________ was larger in heterosexual men than in homosexual men.

Gay men are ________ likely to have been smothered by maternal love than heterosexual men. Boys growing up in a father-absent home are ________ likely to be gay than boys growing up with their father present in the home.

Diego, a 21-year-old law student, is heterosexual; his brother Alejandro, a 21-year-old college senior, is homosexual. The brothers obviously differ in their

One's sexual orientation refers to a(n) ________ members of either one's own sex, the other sex, or both sexes.

Lower rates of pregnancy have been observed among teens who have

Among unmarried American teens, sexual abstinence is more likely for those with ________ levels of intelligence and ________ levels of religious engagement.

The more sexual content adolescents view on TV and in movies, the more likely they are to

In one survey, 72 percent of sexually active 12- to 17-year-old American girls said

Teens who use alcohol prior to sexual intercourse experience

Many sexually active American adolescents fail to avoid pregnancy because

Compared with European teens, U.S. teens have a ________ rate of STIs and ________ a rate of pregnancy.

After viewing sexually attractive women on TV, male college students find an average woman or their own girlfriend or wife as

Professor Langley emphasizes that premature sexual activity among high school students involves the interplay of alcohol consumption, mass media norms, and teens' underestimation of their vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections. The professor's emphasis best illustrates

The most common way AIDS is transmitted is through

The human immunodeficiency virus has been found to be the cause of

Teenage girls are especially vulnerable to STIs because of their

Orgasmic dysfunction is one form of

The refractory period is theThe refractory period is the

During the resolution stage of the sexual response cycle, people are most likely to experience a rapid decrease in arousal if

Masters and Johnson identified orgasm as the ________ stage of the sexual response cycle.

The first stage of the sexual response cycle is

Research on sex hormones and human sexual behavior indicates that

Which sex hormone is secreted in greater amounts by females than by males

In most nonhuman mammals, females become sexually receptive when

Research on the sexual response cycle indicates that

The descriptions of orgasm written by men and women are ________, and PET scans indicate that ________ subcortical brain regions are active in men and women during orgasm.

A problem that consistently interferes with one's ability to complete the sexual response cycle is called

Sex hormone levels experienced between the second and fifth months after conception are most likely to influence sexual orientation in later life due to their impact on

The maternal relatives of homosexual men produce ________ offspring than the maternal relatives of heterosexual men, and male homosexuality is more likely to be transmitted by genes from the ________ side of the family.

It has been suggested that women are genetically predisposed to be more cautious in their mate selection than men are because the birthing process is more time-consuming for women than for men. This best illustrates the logic of

Gay men report ________ interest in uncommitted sex and ________ interest in their partner's physical attractiveness than do lesbian women.

Compared with women, men are ________ likely to feel comfortable about having casual sex with different partners and ________ likely to cite affection as a reason for their first sexual intercourse.

Compared with women, men are more likely to

On mental rotation tasks, gays and lesbians have been observed to score ________ than heterosexual men and ________ than heterosexual women.

A birth-order effect seems to play a role in sexual orientation among

In a study of Welsh pedestrians, women rated a man as ________ if he was pictured at the wheel of an expensive rather than an inexpensive car. Men rated a woman as ________ if she was pictured at the wheel of an expensive rather than an inexpensive car.

Women are most likely to be sexually attracted to men who seem

Men in their ________ are most likely to be sexually attracted to women who are several years older rather than several years younger than themselves.

How would evolutionary psychologists explain men's more accepting attitude toward casual sex?