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1.
How do volunteers for sex research tend to differ from individuals who refuse to participate in sex research?
A)Volunteers hold more permissive attitudes.
B)Volunteers are less sexually experienced.
C)Women are more likely to volunteer for sex research than are men.
D)Volunteers are usually only children, whereas people who have siblings tend to refuse to participate.
2.
Which method for collecting data in large-scale surveys has the greatest advantage with rapport building?
A)phone interview
B)face-to-face interview
C)written questionnaire
D)direct observations
3.
Which of the following is an important component of informed consent in research?
A)articipants have a right to be told the purpose of the research before they participate.
B)Participants have a right to know what they will be asked to do before they participate.
C)Participants may not be forced to participate.
D)All of these.
4.
Web-based surveys:
A)are more expensive than traditional survey methods.
B)on balance offer substantial advantages over traditional survey methods.
C)recruit fewer people than traditional questionnaire studies.
D)are available to everyone.
5.
Political pressure resulted in funding difficulties for which of the following research efforts?
A)the Institute for Sex Research (popularly known as the Kinsey Institute)
B)the National Health and Social Life Survey
C)the survey of teenage sexuality proposed by the National Institutes of Health
D)all of these
6.
Which of the following accurately characterizes the National Health and Social Life Survey conducted in the United States?
A)It used a technique called "100 percent sampling."
B)Data were obtained by phone interviews supplemented by brief written questionnaires.
C)The sample of all ethnic minorities was too small to compute reliable statistics from them, so their data were omitted from most tables of the results.
D)Some interviews took place with a third person (such as a spouse or child) present.
7.
Which of the following is a recommendation made by Ford and Norris for sex research conducted with ethnic minorities?
A)Interviewers should be males, as males carry greater authority in ethnic minority groups.
B)Slang or colloquial terms should be avoided because they are typically offensive to ethnic minority respondents.
C)Interviewers should be of the same ethnic background as the respondents.
D)Interviewers should be female, as females are better at interviewing people about sensitive topics.
8.
Content analysis:
A)is a powerful scientific technique that allows us to analyze how the media portray sexuality.
B)avoids methodological issues, such as sampling, that are problematic to other kinds of sex research. Incorrect. See the
C)allows the researcher to make conclusions about causal factors.
D)all of these
9.
In their research on the physiology of sexual response, Masters and Johnson:
A)used a random sample of medical students.
B)made statistical conclusions about the incidence of normative sexual behaviors.
C)made an important technical advance with the development of an artificial coition technique involving the construction of a clear, plastic artificial penis.
D)found that a significant proportion of participants later developed a sexual disorder.
10.
Which type of research method typically obtains the largest samples?
A)surveys
B)laboratory studies using direct observation
C)participant-observer research
D)experimental research
11.
Which type of research method often yields a sample that is strongly biased?
A)participant-observer research
B)laboratory studies using direct observation.
C)Experimental research.
D)Magazine sex surveys.
12.
Which of the following types of research studies allows us to make conclusions about the causes of behavior?
A)self-reports
B)laboratory studies using direct observation
C)participant-observation studies
D)experiments





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