Chapter 12 Learning Objectives

Sexuality

  1. Sexual attitudes and Behavior
    1. identify problems researchers have when they try to get representative samples of adolescents and truthful answers about adolescent sexuality.
    2. Sketch the progression of adolescent sexual behavior.
    3. List approximate ages for the first experience of various sexual behaviors among adolescent males and female sin the U.S.
    4. Indicate 2 important trends in adolescent behavior since 1900
    5. Compare rates of sexual intercourse among boys and girls, Whites, African American, and Latino youth; younger and older adolescents; and inner city youth versus adolescents in general.
    6. Define sexual script and discuss how different sexual scripts may influence male and female adolescent sexual behavior.
    7. List factors associated with early and irresponsible sexual behavior among adolescents.

      8. 1. Homosexual Attitudes and Behaviors

    8. Explain why sexual orientation is not always a fixed decision at adolescence.
    9. Describe and explain Kinsey's continuum of sexual orientation.

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    10. Define bisexual and indicate the incidence of bisexuality.
    11. Define homophobia.
    12. Conceptualize and describe the coming out process for adolescents.
    13. Explain why no firm answers are available about the causes of heterosexuality or homosexuality.
    14. Indicate what DOES NOT cause homosexuality.

 

  1. Attitudes
    1. Indicate and discuss the incidence and experience of masturbation among adolescent males and females.
    2. Characterize adolescents' communication with each other about contraceptive use.
    3. Indicate rates of contraceptive use at first and later intercourse among adolescents.
    4. List factors associated with use (and nonuse) of contraceptives.

 

  1. Adolescent Pregnancy
    1. Describe the incidence and nature of adolescent pregnancy in the United States.
    2. Compare and contrast adolescent pregnancy rates today with 40 years ago.
    3. Compare the rate of adolescent pregnancy in the U.S. to those in England, France, Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands.
    4. Explain how cognitive factors may influence whether or not pregnancy occurs among early, middle, and late adolescents.
    5. List medical hazards suffered by fetuses and newborns of adolescents.
    6. List social and psychological hazards suffered by children of adolescent mothers.
    7. Describe the incidence and nature of adolescent father's involvement with their children and their children's mother.

 

  1. STD's
    1. Describe the incidence and nature of gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, and genital herpes.
    2. Define AIDS and patterns of incidence in the U.S.
    3. Contrast the nature of adolescent and adult AIDS cases.
    4. List behaviors that do and those that do not put an individual at risk for aids.
    5. Describe the course of AIDS
    6. Indicate characteristics of effective AIDS prevention projects.

 

  1. Sexual Knowledge and Sex Education
    1. Discuss why parents are a poor source of information about sex education for adolescents, and list adolescents primary sources of information.
    2. Explain why sex education in the schools is so controversial.
    3. Summarize the nature, extent, quality, and variability of sex education in American schools.
    4. Evaluate the effectiveness and consequences of sex education in American schools, and discuss pros and cons of "school-linked" approaches to sex education.

 

  1. Forcible Sexual behavior
    1. Distinguish between rape and date (acquaintance) rape and indicate their incidence.
    2. List characteristics of men who rape.
    3. Describe how being raped influences victims lives.
    4. List factors associated with recovery from rape.
    5. Indicate how a male rape occurs, the incidence of male rape and its consequences.
    6. Define sexual harassment, indicate incidence, and sketch consequences.

 

  1. Sexual well-being, Social Policy and Adolescents
    1. indicate cultural and historical correlates of the regulation of adolescent sexual behavior.
    2. State the need for and limitations on current knowledge of adolescent sexuality.
    3. List 4 healthy sexual pathways.
    4. Indicate the appropriate timing and targets of social policy initiatives on adolescent sexuality.
    5. State four policy recommendations for adolescents who have children.