In Determining What Percentage of the Population Was Homosexual and What

question 110

Multiple Choice

In determining what percentage of the population was homosexual and what percentage was heterosexual, why would Alfred Kinsey have avoided asking the question, "Do you identify as gay or straight?"

• A) He needed to justify his research by having lots of questions.
• B) He believed that sexuality is a continuum and wanted to classify people more precisely.
• C) He believed that people would lie to him and needed to be tricked into revealing that they were gay.
• D) He didn't really believe in sexual orientation, but saw "homosexual" and "heterosexual" as socially constructed and constantly changing.
• E) He thought that there would be a large number of transgendered people in his sample.

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Definitions:

Cooperation

The process of working together towards a common goal or benefit.

Group Prototypes

Conceptual or representative examples of the typical qualities or behaviors of a particular social group.

Cognitive Representations

Mental models or symbols that individuals use to understand and interact with the world around them.

Stereotypes

Overgeneralized beliefs about a particular category of people, assuming that everyone in that category shares the same characteristics.