Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sex Therapy, Snowball Sampling, Kinsey Reports
22 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Sex research methodology: procedures for collection of data in sexual science. Kinsey accused of trying to normalize perversion. Petition by colleagues at the washington university school of medicine to fire masters from faculty. Intentional selection of female colleague without advanced academic degree. Lifelong publication ban in american journal of obstetrics and gynecology and american journal of psychiatry. Child sexual abuse: very intense, same impact on males and females: other studies: not pervasive, not intense, more of an impact on females, thus, bad sexual contact can be wrong but not always harmful. Ran huge program for diagnoses of sexual dysfunctions. Clinic for parents and children for children with gender incongruence: reluctant to reassign children"s gender. Procedures for ensuring ethical conduct of research with human participants. Peer review: outside opinion on whether it is ethical, peers do not have to be sex researchers, risks of research. Risks of not doing research: benefits of research. Benefits must outweigh risks: realist view.
