In conducting sexual research, you collect your sample from walk-ins at a local doctor's office. This type of sample is a
A. product of probability sampling.
B. convenience sample.
C. random sample.
D. product of stratified sampling.
Answer: B
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Jenson believes that abortion is permissible in some circumstances, and that it is fine for people to live together as partners but not as married couples. Based on his belief, Jenson is most likely to be a(n)
A. old moralist. B. pluralist. C. "mainline" Roman Catholic. D. member of the New Religious Right.
Sternberg developed a multi-item scale to measure love. Why has his triangular love scale not received widespread use among relationship scientists?
a) The scale is not correlated with people’s actual love experiences. b) The scale does not appear to measure three distinct components of love. c) The scale is too difficult to administer to adults. d) The three subscales are not correlated.
Which of the following is true of how the family as an institution influences sexuality?
A. It instructs children to live outside the framework of societal rules. B. It is the only source of influence on sexuality for children. C. It involves teaching children appropriate norms for behavior. D. It prevents the peer group from exerting any influence.
Which of the following is an advantage of female sterilization?
A. It does not interfere with the production of female sex hormones. B. It hastens the onset of menopause in most women. C. It has a higher failure rate than that of the birth control pills. D. It protects women from contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).