Question: What are the terms related to the degree to which a person's sexual attractions, behavior and identity match?
Answer: concordance or discordance

Question: What is sexual orientation defined as?
Answer: fantasies, attachments and longings

Question: What are the differences in sexual identity and sexual behaviour? 
Answer: sexual identity referring to an individual's conception of themselves, behavior referring to actual sexual acts performed by the individual

Question: Does a person have to show their sexual oreintation in their personal acts?
Answer: Individuals may or may not express their sexual orientation in their behaviors.

Question: What is a term that can be used for someone who does not show their homosexuality openly? 
Answer: closeted

Question: What word is used when somebodys sexual orientation, behaviors, and idenity do not match?
Answer: discordance

Question: Which word is used when somebodys sexual orientation, behaviors, and idenity match?
Answer: concordance

Question: What is one reason that a homosexual would engage in heterosexual behavior?
Answer: desire for a perceived traditional family

Question: What is one reason that a homosexual would engage in heterosexual behavior?
Answer: concerns of discrimination

Question: What is one reason that a homosexual would engage in heterosexual behavior?
Answer: religious ostracism

Question: What is a possible scenario that can occur when a closeted homosexual is in a heterosexual relationship?
Answer: develop positive gay and lesbian identities while maintaining successful heterosexual marriages

Question: What is a possible scenario that can occur when a closeted homosexual is in a heterosexual relationship?
Answer: hide their respective orientations from their spouses

Question: What are some things that can cause a homosexual person to be with the opposite sex?
Answer: desire for a perceived traditional family and concerns of discrimination and religious ostracism

Question: Can a homosexual person still grow their sexual identiries while with the opposit sex? 
Answer: others develop positive gay and lesbian identities while maintaining successful heterosexual marriages

Question: What kind of hardships can a homosexual face when admitting their ssexuality while in a heterosexual marriage?
Answer: Coming out of the closet to oneself, a spouse of the opposite sex, and children

Question: Can a homosexual person hide their true idenitys?
Answer: some LGBT people hide their respective orientations from their spouses

Question: How does the mental health profession approach efforts to change sexual orientation?
Answer: have adopted policy statements

Question: What do these policy statements suggest? 
Answer: cautioning the profession and the public about treatments that purport to change sexual orientation

Question: What are some of the organizations that have released policy statements?
Answer: American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association

Question: What are some of the organizations that have released policy statements?
Answer: National Association of Social Workers in the USA, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Australian Psychological Society.

Question: Are their any mental health proffesionals that have programs to change sexual orientation?
Answer: No major mental health professional organization has sanctioned efforts to change sexual orientation

Question: What policy statement has almost all proffesionals applied to their practices?
Answer: cautioning the profession and the public about treatments that purport to change sexual orientation.

Question: What are some professional associations that do not offer changing sexual orientation programs?
Answer: the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association,

Question: Who was the sexologist that published a scheme in 1896?
Answer: Magnus Hirschfeld

Question: What did the published scheme attempt to do?
Answer: measured the strength of an individual's sexual desire

Question: How did the scheme measure desire?
Answer: on two independent 10-point scales

Question: What were the two scales defined as?
Answer: A (homosexual) and B (heterosexual)

Question: How many points were on each scale?
Answer: 10-point

Question: When did the questioning of human sexual responses begin?
Answer: From at least the late nineteenth century

Question: Who created the ten point scale on a persons sexuals desire?
Answer: Magnus Hirschfeld

Question: What year did Magnus Hirschfeld create the ten point scale on a persons sexual desire. 
Answer: 1896

Question: On Magnus's ten point scale what would a homosexual person be considered?
Answer: a homosexual individual may be A5, B0

Question: On the ten point scale what would an asexual person be considered as?
Answer: an asexual would be A0, B0

Question: What was a concern of the Kinsey scale?
Answer: it inappropriately measures heterosexuality and homosexuality

Question: How are masculinity and femininity more appropriately measured?
Answer: as independent concepts on a separate scale

Question: What happens if the concepts are measured on the same scale?
Answer: they act as tradeoffs such, whereby to be more feminine one had to be less masculine and vice versa

Question: What is the advantage of measuring these elements separately?
Answer: the degree of heterosexual and homosexual can be independently determined, rather than the balance between heterosexual and homosexual

Question: What is considered to be a problem with the Kinsey scale?
Answer: inappropriately measures heterosexuality and homosexuality on the same scale

Question: What did the research performed in the 1970s show about masculinity and feminity?
Answer: more appropriately measured as independent concepts on a separate scale rather than as a single continuum

Question: What would be possible if homesexuality and heterosexuality where measured on different scales?
Answer: would allow one to be both very heterosexual and very homosexual or not very much of either.

Question: What is another benefit of measuring sexuality on two scaless verses just the Kinsey scale?
Answer: the degree of heterosexual and homosexual can be independently determined,

Question: How does research identify sexual population groups?
Answer: scales of assessment

Question: What is the understanding of the scales used?
Answer: to reliably identify and categorize people by their sexual orientation

Question: Why might the scales fail?
Answer: due to ambiguity regarding the definition of sexual orientation

Question: How many components are used in assessment?
Answer: three components

Question: What does the research on sexual orientation use to determine who belongs in which sexual populaiton group?
Answer: scales of assessment

Question: What is the general idea regading these scales that are used?
Answer: assumed that these scales will be able to reliably identify and categorize people by their sexual orientation.

Question: What can cause problems with these scales that are used?
Answer: ambiguity regarding the definition of sexual orientation

Question: How many components are used in an assessment?
Answer: there are three components of sexual orientation

Question: What myth did Bruce Voeller perpetuate in the 70's?
Answer: that the prevalence of homosexuality is 10% for the whole population

Question: What were the calculations of this myth?
Answer: averaging a 13% number for men and a 7% number for women

Question: What message did Voeller deliver using this myth?
Answer: we [gays and lesbians] are everywhere

Question: What comes along with defining how much of the population is homosexual?
Answer: influences how this population may be seen or treated by the public and government bodies