HLTH 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aversion Therapy, Queer Theory, Sigmund Freud
9 Mar 2019
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Theory and research (understanding human sexuality: theories about sexuality, sex researchers, sex research methods and challenges, sex research in canada. The study of sexuality is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary and there is lots of variation amongst disciplines in approach and method. A theory is de ned as a set of assumptions, principles, or methods that helps a researcher understand the nature of phenomenon being studied. Helps determine what is going to be done in a study and what direction research will go. A lot of sex research depends on multiple theories and di erent sources of research. Sigmund freud (1856-1939) created the theory of psychoanalysis and theorized that sex drive is an important life force. This theory focuses on our subconscious and how our interactions with people occur. Theorized by b. f. skinner (1952) who thought that our actions and consequences of behaviour in uence our behaviours from that experience onward.
