PSYC 333 Chapter 3: Chapter 3
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It is important that participants always feel comfortable in the laboratory. Canadians, indicating that the psychological attitudes to sexuality do not inhibit the physical ability to become aroused. Historical overview of sex research methods: early text, texts on sexuality served instructional, cultural and religious purposed to those who had access to them. They were successful in having interviewees disclose information about. Interview: self-report research tools designed to collect data about an individual"s experiences and/ perspectives sexual behaviour that was not considered to be socially acceptable by. normalizing all their questions (making it sound like all of the behaviours were expected: sexual behaviours in the human male (1948) and sexual behaviours in the human female (1953) Normalized same-sex attraction and bisexual fantasies and behaviour. Challenged victorian idea that women were disinterest in sex: criticism: non random sampling resulting in the over representation of white men and women and underrepresentation of ethnic minorities possibly leading to problems with prevalence data.