- State the authors’ definition of human sexuality.
- Describe the contributions made by the many disciplines involved to the study of human sexuality.
- Discuss the role of various value systems in making “rational” sexual choices.
- List the characteristics of critical thinking and explain how critical thinking skills can be applied to the study of human sexuality.
- Identify the characteristic sexual attitudes and practices of the historical eras described in this chapter.
- Relate how the origins of contemporary sexual attitudes and behaviors can be traced to earlier eras.
- Explain the foundations and recent history of sexuality as a “legitimate” area of scientific study.
- Identify the major focuses of biological sexual research and its contributions to the field.
- List the conclusions evolutionary psychologists draw from the evolutionary perspective, and identify the assumptions underlying each one.
- Explain what we can and cannot learn from cross-species comparisons of sexual behavior.
- Describe some of the cross-cultural variations in sexual behaviors and attitudes and discuss possible conclusions about the universality of human sexual behavior given the cross-cultural material presented.
- Explain the psychoanalytic theory and several learning theories of human sexual behavior.
- Describe the contributions that the sociocultural perspectives make to the study of human sexual behavior.
- Explain the importance of including multiple perspectives to understand sexuality.
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