Exam 4 Flashcards

1
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Love research in regards to time and geography

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The longer you have known someone and the closer you are to them increases the likelihood that you would be attracted to them

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2
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Research on degree of attractiveness and dating history

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People who are too attractive or not attractive enough do not date as often

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3
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How does the interpersonal market place work for pairing up?

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Men and women choose partners for whom we think we have a lot to offer and how much we can buy with that

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4
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Know reinforcement theory

How does it effect who we are attracted to?

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People tend to like other people who give us reinforcement or rewards and to dislike people who punish us.

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5
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Know how intimacy affects relationships

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Intimacy can strengthen relationships

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6
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How intimacy and self-disclosure are related

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Involves telling your partners some personal information about yourself.
Leads to reciprocity

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7
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Know how the triangular theory of love components are expressed when converted to action

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Intimacy, Passion, Decision/ commitment
intimacy in action: communicating personal feelings and and information
Passion: actions like kissing and touching
Decision: Actions sch as “I love you”

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8
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Know the different types of lovers according to attachment theory

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Secret lovers
Fearful , avoidance lovers
Preoccupation or anxious-ambivalent lovers

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9
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Know how love stories may play a role in who we fall in love with

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Shape our beliefs about love and our relationships.

In turn, our beliefs influence our behavior

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10
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Know the destructive patterns of interactions an be able to pick out examples

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Threats to self-esteem

Threats to the relationship

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11
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Know how one adopts the beliefs and customs of new cultures

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12
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Stereotype

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generalization about a group of people

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13
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gender role

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Set of norms or culturally defined expectations, that define how people of one gender ought to behave

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14
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Socialization

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The ways in which society conveys to the individuals its norms or expectations for his or her behavior

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15
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Schema

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Set of ideas we associate with men and women

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16
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gender identity

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17
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Gender Dysphoria

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Unhappiness with one’s gender; another term for transsexualism

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18
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Sexual orientation

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A person;s erotic and emotional orientation towards members of his or her own gender or members of another gender

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19
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Coming out

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The acknowledging to oneself, and then to others that one is gay or lesbian

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20
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homophobia

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A strong, irrational feet of homosexuals; negative attitudes and reactions to homosexuals

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21
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Anti-gay prejudice

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Negative attitudes and behaviors towards gays and lesbians

22
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How Native American tribes deal with people who are “third gendered”

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much more accepting and allowed them to be a major part of the tribe

23
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Difference between men and women: Aggression, communication, masturbatory behavior and porn use

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Men are more aggressive, Women and men communicate verbally and nonverbal, men are more active masturbators and porn users

24
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How do sex researchers assess sexual arousal

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Penile strain gage

Photoplethysmograph

25
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How do researchers get the most honest answers out of women in research

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Ask them to focus on what they are to report on. If you want reports on arousal ask them to focus on their bodies and the changes they feel.

26
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What parts of the female gender roles can interfere with sexual functioning

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attactiveness and acting assertively

27
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Kaplan’s view on the development of women’s sexuality across the lifespan

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Sexual awakening may occur much later than men and they may not begin masturbating until age 30 or 35
Orgasmic response may be slow and inconsistent in teens and 20s
In their 30’s they may initiate sex more and lubrication is the quickest at this age.
Also when women are most likely to have extramarital sex

28
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How many LGB individuals experience verbal abuse in their life time

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The majority. Especially in middle school

29
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How do gender stereotypes in the media affect young boys and girls

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Tells them how to behave and can cause psychological issues for the child if they do not adhere to the stereotypes

30
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Understanding of Sexual fluidity

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Changes that occur over time in sexual attraction, identity or behavior.

31
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Research on sustainability of Lesbian and gay relationships

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Just as sustainable as heterosexual relationships. Between 8-12% of lesbian couples have been together for 10+ years.
Between 18-28% of Gay male couples have been together for 10+years

32
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How do men and women differ in how they think/feel about the necessity for emotional involvement for sexual intercourse

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Women feel that it is more necessary than men

33
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Participants of the tearoom trade research project

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Heterosexual married men. Most likely leaders in the community.

34
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Research on gay and lesbian parenting

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no different than children raised by heterosexual parents.

35
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How have homosexuals been treated in different time periods

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36
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How are prenatal hormones thought to affect sexuality

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Thought that a variation in prenatal development when the Hypothalamus is differentiating and determining sexual orientation can cause homosexuality.

37
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How does a sexual behavior go from normal to paraphiliac

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When a person has a mild fetish for silk underwear, find it arousing, that is normal.
When it becomes extreme and the person cannot get aroused without the underwear’s when it is considered paraphiliac.
Must occur for at least 6 months.

38
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How do people with fetishes behave and what might they collect?

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might collect objects that have erotic significance to them.
They have sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors related to the object.
A sexual fixation.
Fetish would be focused on either Media or Form

39
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transsexual

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A person who believes he or she was born of the other gender

40
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transvestite

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person who derives sexual gratification tom dressing as a member of the other gender

41
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transvestic fetishism

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Heterosexual man who dresses up in female clothing to produce or enhance sexual arousal

42
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Drag queen

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gay men who dress up as women

43
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Female impersonator

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A man who dresses up as a women as a art of a job in entertainment.

44
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Why is the term sexual addiction criticized

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Does not meet the professional definition of addiction.

AA style treatments do not work on sexual addiction because sexual expression is a basic human need.

That addiction is a social construction an reflects the need for medicalization.

45
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What is S&M behavior?

Why do people who are not sadists and masochists engage in elements of S&M?

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Sadistic and masochistic.

Sadists inflict pain on others for sexual gratification.

Masochists have sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors involving being beaten, humiliated or tortured (made to suffer) to enhance or achieve sexual excitement.

Find it exciting or allow them to give control to another

46
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Why do people engage in masochistic behavior?

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To give control over to another. To escape self-awareness.

47
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Suggested strategy for encountering an exhibitionist

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Do not act shocked.
Maybe embarrass them
Report them so that they can get help

48
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What is most likely to turn on voyeur and what else might he engage in

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The risk and the fact that the person being watched doesn’t know.
Might masturbate while peeping or while fantasizing later

49
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Functioning of Asexual individuals

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No sexual attraction to any gender.
do engage in “unwanted” sexual behavior
Are mostly women, attend church and are of low SES

50
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Behavior of a Frotteurist

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Sexual satisfaction from touching or rubbing one;s genitals against the body of a non-consenting person

51
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Behavior of a necrophiliac

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Sexual satisfaction from contact with a dead person.

52
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Behavior of an exhibitionist

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Exposing their genitals to others in situations where it would be inappropriate to get sexual gratification