Exam 2: Theoretical Perspectives on Sexuality

A) Sexual selection
B) Environmentalism
C) Gender relativism
D) Structural functionalism

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A) The id operates on idealism.
B) The ego is the reservoir of psychic energy.
C) The id focuses on rational, realistic interactions.
D) The superego persuades the ego to strive for moral goals.

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A) penis envy
B) castration anxiety
C) oral fixation
D) anal envy

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A) It is the stage during which a child is focused on elimination.
B) It is the stage during which a boy feels castration anxiety.
C) It is the stage during which a girl displays hostility toward her father.
D) It is the stage during which a boy displays hostility toward his mother.

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A) can predict conditions under which people try to change their relationships.
B) does not take the needs and obligations of people into account.
C) applies only to primitive, tribal societies and not contemporary, urban societies.
D) assumes that we have no freedom of choice and that all events in life are predetermined.

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A) sociocultural
B) normative
C) evolutionary
D) quantum

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A) it doesn't give weight to the fact that emotional structures have evolved like human behavior.
B) it assumes that every characteristic that we observe must have some adaptive significance.
C) it allows for the fact that some traits displayed by humans may be simply "design flaws".
D) it believes that men and women are identical when it comes to their mating preferences.

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A) Gender schema allows us to process information without the influence of gender stereotypes.
B) Gender schema predisposes us to process information based on gender.
C) Gender schema helps us analyze information that contradicts gender stereotypes.
D) Gender schema makes storing information contrary to gender stereotypes easy.

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A) develop sequentially.
B) develop simultaneously.
C) are functional from birth.
D) are present only in males.

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A) thanatos
B) fatalism
C) determinism
D) anima

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A gender schema predisposes individuals ...

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A) sociobiological
B) geopolitical
C) psychosomatic
D) sociological

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A) A female nurse
B) A female bouncer
C) A male carpenter
D) A male truck driver

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A) focuses on what motivates undesirable behavior.
B) cannot be used to treat children and adolescents.
C) does not necessitate an in-depth analysis of a person.
D) is ineffective in the treatment of sexual disorders.

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A) Oedipal
B) Electra
C) Thanatos
D) Superego

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A) It is based on the pleasure principle and thanatos.
B) It is ineffective in the treatment of sexual disorders.
C) It necessitates an in-depth analysis of the person.
D) It is based on the principles of operant conditioning.

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A) Environmental psychology
B) Structural functionalism
C) Evolutionary psychology
D) Cultural relativism

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A) It operates on the pleasure principle.
B) It keeps the id in check.
C) It prevents people from being rational.
D) It is a reservoir of psychic energy.

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