Study Guide for Human Sexuality Class
HDFS 240- Midterm 1 Study Guide
Chapter 1:
Sex Education or Abstinence- Only? * College students were more likely to use condoms after taking this class * Abstinence only education teaches that teens should resist engaging in sexual activity and should wait until marriage * Schools steer away from that teaching and instead move toward more comprehensive teaching about sexuality that stresses accurate info that allows teens to make responsible decisions
People know a lot about sex- and much of it is WRONG-
Sexuality and Culture- sex education in China- * Half of all college students in China have received no education in school about sex causing them to just have sex which is increasing HIV and STDS * 700,000 Chinese are HIV positive
Survey Participant Sample- relate to lecture and the people discussed * the entire group of people being studied in a survey is the target population= usually a large group of people such as students, teens or adult males * random sampling= when you select respondents randomly from the entire population of interest * the larger your sample the more representative of your population it is likely to be
Evaluation sexual research- * all responses in magazine based surveys are usually biased
Correlational research- * a type of research methodology used when scientists study human sexuality- observing how two people relate to one another * there are 3 types of correlations that exist * 1: positive correlation- indicates that we can predict that the two variables will change together in the same direction ex. Relating to height and shoe size- as one increases the other does as well * 2: negative correlation- variables move predictably in the opposite direction, ex. The amount of alcohol consume and driving ability, when one increases the other will decrease * 3: no correlation: no consistent, predictable relationship exists between the two variables, ex. The relationship
Chapter 1:
Sex Education or Abstinence- Only? * College students were more likely to use condoms after taking this class * Abstinence only education teaches that teens should resist engaging in sexual activity and should wait until marriage * Schools steer away from that teaching and instead move toward more comprehensive teaching about sexuality that stresses accurate info that allows teens to make responsible decisions
People know a lot about sex- and much of it is WRONG-
Sexuality and Culture- sex education in China- * Half of all college students in China have received no education in school about sex causing them to just have sex which is increasing HIV and STDS * 700,000 Chinese are HIV positive
Survey Participant Sample- relate to lecture and the people discussed * the entire group of people being studied in a survey is the target population= usually a large group of people such as students, teens or adult males * random sampling= when you select respondents randomly from the entire population of interest * the larger your sample the more representative of your population it is likely to be
Evaluation sexual research- * all responses in magazine based surveys are usually biased
Correlational research- * a type of research methodology used when scientists study human sexuality- observing how two people relate to one another * there are 3 types of correlations that exist * 1: positive correlation- indicates that we can predict that the two variables will change together in the same direction ex. Relating to height and shoe size- as one increases the other does as well * 2: negative correlation- variables move predictably in the opposite direction, ex. The amount of alcohol consume and driving ability, when one increases the other will decrease * 3: no correlation: no consistent, predictable relationship exists between the two variables, ex. The relationship