PSY 3122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Handedness, Sexual Attraction, Twin Study
15 Dec 2015
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The way we think about sexual orientations as a concept, how we understand it, and how we define it. Implicit in this is that there is a deviation from the norm and that there is something wrong with homosexuality. 49% of people believe that people are born with their sexual orientation. Today, our understanding of homosexual orientation is that there is most likely a biopsychosocial interaction, but we don"t know the exact interaction. There seems to be evidence for a biological predisposition for an exclusively homosexual orientation. I. e. : they"ve always been attracted to the same gender, constantly, with 0 attraction to the opposite gender. According to the nhlsh, 1. 8 men consider themselves exclusively homosexual and 1. 4 for women. Biological determinism (if we were to find genetic factors) would have a great impact on society and social policy. Conceptual models of sexual orientation: pre-kinsey dichotomous model. Before kinsey, our conceptualization of sexual orientation was dichotomous.
