Uts Flashcards
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Are highly
influenced by a person’s current psychological state of mind.
Erogenous zones
He believed that in
every stage, you should be able to overcome the conflicts in order for you not
to incur fixation.
Sigmund Freud
Is something that occurs when you are unable to
resolve an issue during any of your psychosexual stages.
Fixation
Mouth; Hunger or Overindulgence
Oral (0-18 months)
Anus; Withholding bowel or uncontrolled bowel habits
Anal (18-36 months)
Genitals; unable to cope with incestuous
sexual feelings
Phallic (3-6 years)
A phase of dormant sexual Feelings
Latency (6 to puberty)
Whole body; maturity of sexual interests
Genital (Puberty onwards)
The holy grail of survival amongst any known species on Earth
Sex
Is the key ingredient by which every creature
share.
Survival
Refers to the categories of
being Male and Female –
needed for the act of mating
to result in biological
reproduction
Sex
Biologically determined
differences between men
and women
Sex
Constant across time,
across different societies
and culture
Sex
Is about your
sexual feelings, thoughts,
attractions and
behaviours towards
other people
.
Sexuality
“the feelings you have about your
body and your confidence level in
how you relate intimately to
someone else.
Sexual Self Esteem
As for the other factors that push us
Biological, Psychological, Social
Dealt with the evolution of the
characteristics due to mating, rather than
survival, advantage (Darwin, 1859; 1871
Natural Selection
According to William Masters and Virginia
Johnson (1966) sexual activity is a cycle which consists mainly of four
phases:
excitement (desire/arousal), plateau, orgasm, and
resolution
Those who survive the struggle are by definition
not only the fittest but also morally the best. So
it’s defining ‘good’ as ‘survival. ‘ Whatever
survives is by definition good.
(Spencer, 1864)
Is the first phase in the cycle is divided into two. Desire
happens when we feel sexual urges after perceiving sexual cues or fantasies.
This part is purely psychological. On the other hand, arousal, shows several
physiological signs in both male and female. Like for males you have penile
tumescence or commonly known as an erection, while for females you have
breast tumescence (nipple erection) and vasocongestion which leads to the
lubrication of the vagina
Excitement
This is usually the brief period before
orgasm.
Plateau
In men, there is the feeling
of inevitability of ejaculation, followed by ejaculation itself. In females, there
is the feeling of intense sexual pleasure and contractions on the lower third
of the vagina.
Orgasm
Usually
characterized by the decreased arousal and sexual urge after ejaculation
Resolution
Subsumes the processes of intrasexual competition and
intersexual selection.
Sexual Selection