Discuss some concepts behind the difficulty in determining "normal" sexual behavior

What will be an ideal response?


It is difficult to decide on criteria on which to base "normal" sexual behavior. Some criteria to consider might be:
1) The number of people who engage in it
2) What a particular religion says about it
3) What the courts or psychiatrists decide
4) Whether harm is done to anyone else

Psychology

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What will be an ideal response?

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Newborns recognize their mother and father's voices because

a. it is instinctive. b. they head these voices while they were in the womb. c. they hear these voices frequently in the time immediately following birth. d. these are usually the only voices they hear in the time immediately following birth.

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Difference scores are used in the ______.

A. one-sample z test B. one-sample t test C. paired samples t test D. independent samples t test

Psychology

Nunes and Kramer (2009) investigated whether age-related declines in certain aspects of performance (e.g., speed, multi-tasking) are offset by experience. What did they find?

a) There was no experience-related sparing of abilities; younger participants outperformed older participants across the board. b) There was complete experience-related sparing of abilities; the experience of older participants mitigated any basic disadvantages in processing. c) There was experience-related sparing of abilities, but only for executive control tasks like task switching. d) There was experience-related sparing of abilities, but only for simple tasks like conflict detection.

Psychology