After an animal is allowed to copulate until it has no further interest, it will resume sexual activity when a new partner is provided. This is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. Sexual fantasy is accepted as a driving force in sexual offending. Which of the following raises over this assumed simple link between fantasy and offending?

   A. Sexual offences are often non- consummatory
   B. When treatment is mainly directed at reducing fantastic recidivism actually increases
   C. Unacceptable themes are found in the fantasy of ‘normal’ individuals but they don’t have to be acted upon in order to have erotic effects
   D. All of the above

2. The brain structure that plays a critical role in ‘motivated’ behaviors such as eating and sexual activity is the ___________?

   A. cerebral cortex
   B. amygdala
   C. corpus collosum
   D. hypothalamus

3. Which of the following has not been found in research on gender differences in sexual interest?

   A. Men think about sex more than women
   B. Men initiate sex more than women
   C. Women are more interested in having many partners than men are
   D. Women are less interested in uncommitted sex

4. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

5. Our sexual attraction toward members of either the same sex or the opposite sex is called our.

   A. sexual orientation
   B. gender identity
   C. sexual identity
   D. set point

6. Konrad Lorenz documented a range of what kind of activity in the animal kingdom?

   A. Prosocial behavior
   B. Instinctual
   C. Aggression
   D. Imprinting

7. A boy’s sexual desires for his mother and feelings of hostility toward his father constitute what Freud called:

   A. displacement
   B. reaction formation
   C. reciprocal determinism
   D. the Oedipus complex

8. Choosing a marriage partner and deciding whether or not to have children may be related to Erikson’s psychosocial stage of ______________?

   A. trust vs. mistrust
   B. generativity vs. isolation
   C. intimacy vs. isolation
   D. integrity vs. despair

9. What factor determines the sexual behavior of most species?

   A. Emotions
   B. Availability
   C. Hormones
   D. Thinking

10. According to sociobiological explanations from sexual behavior, women seek out partners who will provide the most______.

    A. DNA
    B. Sex
    C. Parental investment
    D. Sexual investment