Understanding Human Sexuality 7th Canadian Edition By Janet Shibley Hyde – Test Bank

Chapter 11
Sexuality and the Life Cycle: Adulthood

True / False Questions

1. Developing a capacity for intimacy is one important issue in achieving sexual maturity.
TRUE

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Learning Objective: 11-01 Describe the continuing sexual development that occurs throughout young adulthood.
Topic: 11-01 Sex and the Single Person

2. The singles scene offers something for everyone who is not presently married.
FALSE

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Learning Objective: 11-02 Identify the various never-married groups and describe the single lifestyles.
Topic: 11-02 Sexual Unfolding Development

3. Individuals who cohabit are more likely to have higher frequencies of intercourse than those who are married or are in the single never-married non-cohabitating categories.
TRUE

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Learning Objective: 11-03 Describe the rates of and influences on cohabitation; as well as the sexual lives of people who live together.
Topic: 11-05 Cohabitation

4. According to research, people who live together before marriage are more likely to separate after marriage than those who do not live together before marriage.
TRUE

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Learning Objective: 11-03 Describe the rates of and influences on cohabitation; as well as the sexual lives of people who live together.
Topic: 11-05 Cohabitation

5. Given the permissiveness of sexual activity in Canadian society, nowadays it is safe to assume that single adults are sexually active.
FALSE

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Learning Objective: 11-02 Identify the various never-married groups and describe the single lifestyles.
Topic: 11-02 Sexual Unfolding Development

6. The rights of gay and lesbian couples to equal treatment are protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
TRUE

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Learning Objective: 11-04 Describe sex in marriage.
Topic: 11-06 Marriage

7. The relatively sharp decline in marital intercourse after the first year of marriage may be due to the factor of habituation and, later on in the marriage, because of the arrival of children.
TRUE

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Learning Objective: 11-04 Describe sex in marriage.
Topic: 11-07 Frequency of Intercourse

8. Research indicates that sexual relationships suffer if the woman works outside the home.
FALSE

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Learning Objective: 11-04 Describe sex in marriage.
Topic: 11-13 Sex and the Two-Career Family

9. There has been no real increase of new or different marital sexual techniques in the last half of this century.
FALSE

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Learning Objective: 11-04 Describe sex in marriage.
Topic: 11-08 Sexual Techniques

10. There are a number of “swingers’ clubs” all across Canada.
TRUE

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Learning Objective: 11-06 Define the different kinds of extradyadic sex and their prevalence; acceptance; and causes among Canadians.
Topic: 11-16 Nonmonogamous Relationships

11. Attitudes toward extramarital sex have become more liberalized in recent decades due to the increase in premarital sexuality which is one of the best predictors of extramarital sex.
FALSE