A. Lesions of the preoptic area can elicit copulatory activity
B. Electrical stimulation of the preoptic area can permanently abolish male sexual behavior
C. Neuronal and metabolic activity is induced the preoptic area during copulation
D. Small implants of the female hormone estrogen into the preoptic area restore sexual behavior is castrated rats
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?
A. External sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state
B. Pre-optic area and estrogen
C. Interpersonal attraction and financial stability
D. Intelligence and physical attractiveness - Which, if any, of the factors below has probably NOT influenced human sexual behavior in evolution?
A. Women might choose a partner likely to provide reliability and stability
B. Women might be attracted to men who are successful and powerful
C. Men might guard the partner from the attentions of other men
D. None of the above-all are true - What factor determines the sexual behavior of most species?
A. Emotions
B. Availability
C. Hormones
D. Thinking - 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 - Imagine you are a male three-spined stickleback (a fish). You come across a nest of unfertilized three-spined stickleback eggs and you can’t help but do a particular dance and then go ahead and fertilize the eggs. Which theory of motivation accounts for your behavior?
A. Opponent-process
B. Instinct
C. Arousal
D. Behavioral - All of the following are stages of the human sexual response cycle EXCEPT:
A. Arousal
B. Plateau
C. Excitement
D. Orgasm - 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 - 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:
A. a stimulus need
B. a curiosity drive
C. the Coolidge effect
D. an episodic drive - Kinsey maintained that sexual orientation:
A. depends on early classical conditioning experiences
B. should be viewed as a continuum
C. depends on normalities and abnormalities in the amygdala
D. should be viewed as an either-or distinction
