Chapter 11
Educational Psychology 321 with Brown at University of Wisconsin - Madison
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What are the four developmental challenges of healthy sexual development?
1. Accepting changing body
2. Accepting feelings of arousal
3. Understanding that sex is voluntary
4. Practicing safe sex
2. Accepting feelings of arousal
3. Understanding that sex is voluntary
4. Practicing safe sex
What is sexual socialization?
The process through which adolescents are exposed to and educated about sexuality.
Ford and Beach categorized societies into three groups. Name them!
1. Restrictive
2. Semirestrictive
3. Permissive
2. Semirestrictive
3. Permissive
What are restrictive societies?
Societies in which adolescents are pressured to refrain from sexual activity until they have married or undergone a formal rite of passage into adulthood.
What are semirestrictive societies?
Societies in which pressures against adolescent sexual activity exist but are not vigilantly enforced.
What are permissive societies?
Societies in which sexual activity during childhood and adolescence is not greatly restrained.
Which type of society is America with respect to sex?
Semirestrictive.
How have attitudes toward sex changed in America?
More liberal in the '60s and '70s and now only slightly more conservative.
What is serial monogamy?
Having a series of sexual relationships over time in which one is monogamous within each relationship.
What is autoerotic behavior?
Sexual behavior that is experienced alone, such as masturbation or sexual fantasizing.
What are nocturnal orgasms?
Wet dreams, hah.
Why might African Americans have a higher risk for pregnancy?
Faster progression of sexual activity common in the culture might account for a lack of preparation.
What is the trend for prevalence and age of first intercourse in America?
Slightly fewer adolescents are having sexual intercourse (and yet, are more sexually active), but those who are do so at a somewhat earlier age.
Early sexual activity is associated with what?
General behavior profile which includes experimentation with drugs, tolerance of deviant behavior and lower interest in academic achievement.
What is testosterone?
One of the sex hormones secreted by the gonads found in both sexes but higher levels among males than females. It is an androgen.
What are risk factors and how do they affect the likelihood of sex?
Factors that increase the likelihood of some behavior or condition, in this case sex.
What is sexual orientation?
An individual's orientation toward same- or opposite-sex sex partners.
What is sex-role behavior?
Behavior that is consistent with prevailing expectations for how individuals of a given sex are to behave.
What is gender identity?
The gender an individual identifies with.
What is date rape?
Being forced by a date to have sex against one's will.
Which industrialized nation has the highest rate of teen pregnancy?
The United States.
What is a sexually transmitted disease?
Any of a group of infections including gonorrhea, herpes, chlamydia and AIDS which are passed through sexual contact.
What is gonorrhea?
An STD caused by a bacterium.
What is chlamydia?
An STD caused by a virus.
What is herpes?
An STD cause by a virus.
What is human papilloma virus?
One of several viruses that causes a sexually transmitted disease.
What is AIDS?
A disease transmitted by means of bodily fluids that devastates the immune system.
What is HIV?
The virus associated with AIDS.
Does abortion have a negative psychological affect on teens?
No.
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