Explain sexual orientation and give examples of how it is a continuum.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Sexual orientation refers to romantic or sexual attraction to people of a specific sex or gender. Individual's sexual orientation falls along a continuum in that it is possible to be something other than heterosexual or homosexual. Many people fall in the middle (bisexual) and some people are not sexual at all (asexual). Sexual orientation is also subject to change over time.
Learning Objective: 1: Identify the main features of the gender domain as they apply to the study of personality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexual Orientation
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What will be an ideal response?
______ rates refer to the extent to which new cases of a disorder appear over a specified time period
a. Comorbidity b. Comortality c. Incidence d. Prevalence
Schwarzer's (1992) Health Action Process Approach has been found to be applicable to:
a. assist older men with cardiovascular issues. b. reduce pregnancies in teens. c. help smokers in smoking cessation classes. d. a wide variety of health behaviors including exercise, breast self-exams, seat belt use, dieting and dental flossing.
Which of the following is a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association that describes the criteria used to diagnose psychological disorders?
a) The Multiaxial System Manual b) The Handbook of Abnormal Psychology c) The Pervasive Developmental Disorders Handbook d) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders