Males Living in Melanesia Who Shift from a Pattern of Exclusive

question 61

Multiple Choice

Males living in Melanesia who shift from a pattern of exclusive homosexuality to a pattern of exclusive heterosexuality are instructed that there are several stages through which a boy must pass to become a masculine man.These boys also participate in initiation ceremonies that involve first giving fellatio to older boys/men and then receiving fellatio from younger boys.The structure of this cultural tradition combines which two theories of sexuality?

• A)operant and classical conditioning
• B)cognitive theory and learning theories
• C)schema processing and evolutionary theory
• D)psychoanalysis and sociobiology

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Holt-Winters Additive Model

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Seasonality

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Mean Absolute Deviation

The average of the absolute differences between each data point and the mean of the data set.

Root Mean Square Error

A measure of the differences between values predicted by a model and the values actually observed, expressed as the square root of the mean of these differences squared.