Multiple Choice

Examination Questions - Multiple Choice

Click on correct answer.
In some cases, more than one answer is correct.
 

1. Who of the following contributed to a better understanding of the sexual response?

 

Carl Westphal

 

Ernst Gräfenberg

 

Samuel Tissot

 

Arnold H. Kegel


 

2. A sexological examination is used to

 

explore the patient's past sexual behavior

 

explore the patient's sexual fears and anxieties

 

explore the patient's sexual responsiveness

 

explore the patient's medical history


 

3. For his research, Alfred C. Kinsey used

 

questionnaires

 

nation-wide polls

 

sexological examinations

 

personal interviews


 

4. The first sexologist to develop an instrument for recording a patient's sexual history was

 

Ernst Gräfenberg

 

Wilhelm Reich

 

Alfred C. Kinsey

 

Magnus Hirschfeld


 

5. Masters and Johnson pioneered

 

the male/female dual therapy team

 

the use of the perineometer

 

taking the sex history of their patients

 

the PLISSIT model of sex therapy


 

6. The PLISSIT model of sex therapy was developed by

 

Alfred C. Kinsey

 

Masters and Johnson

 

Arnold H. Kegel

 

Jack Annon


 

7. The WAS Declaration of Sexual Rights lists, among others, the following rights:

 

the right to make free and responsible reproductive choices

 

the right to sexual information based upon scientific inquiry

 

the right to use any drug that can enhance sexual performance

 

the right to emotional sexual epxpression


 

8. A woman can easily identify her pubococcigeus muscle by

 

looking at her vagina with a hand-held mirror

 

using a large vaginal dilator to look for her G-spot

 

sitting on a toilet with her legs spread apart and trying to stop the flow of urine

 

massaging the area below her navel and feeling some muscular tension there


 

9. Sexual dysfunctions often result from some distortions of sexual communication. Such typical modern distortions are:

 

an overemphasis on coitus

 

an overemphasis on orgasm

 

an overemphasis on the female response

 

an overemphasis on the process of lovemaking rather than on the result


 

10. A correct diagnosis of sexual dysfunctions requires

 

a physical examination

 

an interpretation of dreams

 

questioning under hypnosis

 

taking a sex history


 

11. Any information given in a patient's sex history

 

should never be shared with the patient's partner

 

should immediately be shared with the patient's partner

 

can be shared with the partner only with the patient's consent

 

should be compared by the therapist with the information given by the partner


 

12. The PAHO/WHO/WAS definition of sexual health states that

 

sexual health is the absence of dysfunction, disease and/or infirmity

 

sexual health is not merely the absence of dysfunction, disease and/or infirmity

 

sexual health requires that the sexual rights of all people be upheld

 

sexual health does not require that the sexual rights of all people be upheld


 

13. Which of the following are considered "classic" sexual dysfunctions?

 

vaginismus

 

sexual aversion

 

inhibited sexual desire

 

lack of orgasm


 

14. In Victorian times, women

 

had no right to abortion

 

were believed to have more interest in having children than in sexual activity

 

had the right to contraception

 

were considered sick or dangerous if they had strong sexual desires


 

15. The Diagnostic Handbook of the American Psychiatric Association is known for short as

 

DSH

 

DM

 

DH

 

DSM


 

16. The Intersex Society of North America is an organization of

 

bisexuals

 

people with gender identity problems

 

people with sexual orientation problems

 

people interested in international sexual contacts


 

17. Masturbation was recommended as therapeutic by the following physicians

 

Galen

 

Samuel Tissot

 

Wilhelm Reich

 

Alfred C. Kinsey


 

18. The disease homosexuality was invented

 

in Greek antiquity

 

in the Middle Ages

 

in the 18th century

 

in the 19th century


 

19. The American Psychiatric Association ceased to consider homosexuality a mental illness

 

in the 1950s

 

in the 1960s

 

in the 1970s

 

in the 1980s


 

20. Which of the following terms implies the existence of a natural, correct sexual behavior?

 

aberration

 

perversion

 

paraphilia

 

deviation


 

21. The term "dyspareunia" is often used to refer to

 

sexual aversion

 

vaginismus

 

pain during sexual intercourse

 

inability to reach orgasm


 

22. Women have a problem of tumescence when

 

they have difficulties reaching orgasm

 

they experience pain during sexual intercourse

 

they fail to develop vaginal lubrication

 

they suffer from excessive vaginal lubricationj


 

23. Masters and Johnson published their research

 

in the 1920s

 

in the 1950s

 

in the 1960s

 

in the 1990s


 

24. Figures about the prevalence of sexual dysfunctions are not reliable if they are based on the findings of

 

sex therapists

 

pharmaceutical companies

 

poll takers

 

telephone surveys


 

25. Which of the following are not gender identity problems?

 

bisexuality

 

fetishistic transvestism

 

gender dysphoria

 

intersex syndromes

[Course 5] [Examination] [True or False] [Multiple Choice] [Short Essays] [Long Essays]