Sexual Scripts and Socialization · Clinical Exercise

Dysfunction or Script Conflict

Four referrals, each of which supports two readings. One of them is not a script presentation at all, and knowing which is the skill.

What this exercise practises

The formulation decision this section turns on: whether a presentation describes a sexuality that is not working, or a sexuality being measured against a script it was never going to match.

Four referrals and three shorter tasks, all multiple choice or sorting, with feedback on every answer. The one writing box is optional.

Estimated time to complete this exercise: 25 minutes

1Four referrals
2Script or finding
3Which level
4Rigidity
5The sentence
6Close

Before you begin

How this one works

Four referrals, then three shorter tasks. Everything is multiple choice or sorting, with feedback on every answer and the stronger formulation shown when you miss it.
One of the four referrals is not a script presentation. The section you have just read makes script conflict look like the answer to everything, and part of the skill is knowing where it stops.
Nothing is graded and nothing you type leaves your browser. The one writing box at the end is optional.
This exercise uses Section 5 only. It does not require the assessment tools from Module 10.

The skill being practised is the formulation decision: whether a presentation describes a sexuality that is not working, or a sexuality being measured against a script it cannot match.

References

  1. DeLamater, J., & Moorman, S. M. (2007). Sexual behavior in later life. Journal of Aging and Health, 19(6), 921–945. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264307308342
  2. Simon, W., & Gagnon, J. H. (1986). Sexual scripts: Permanence and change. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 15(2), 97–120.
  3. Wiederman, M. W. (2005). The gendered nature of sexual scripts. The Family Journal, 13(4), 496–502.