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| Sexual and Life Instincts (coined by Freud) |
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| seeks to obtain gratification and fulfillment of its needs (pleasure principle) |
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| tries to satisfy the id's desire in a way that is rational and avoids self destruction (reality principle) |
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| tries to persuade the ego to do not what is realistic, but what is moral |
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| personality structure consisting of the id, ego, and superego drives behavior. Sexual abnormalities arise when individuals become fixated during one of the psychosexual stages of development. |
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| Repeated paring of a neutral stimulus with one that produces a specific behavior will eventually lead the neutral stimulus to elicit the same behavior (e.g., touching genitals and talking dirty) |
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| Reinforced behaviors increase in frequency; punished behaviors decrease. Reinforcement is more effective than punishment (someone who receives pleasurable consequences from sex is likely to repeat the behavior) |
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| Social/observational learning |
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| behavior can be learned through observation of others (e.g., peers, parents) or through media exposure, including pornography (ex, bobo doll experiments) |
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| Exchange of resources is fundamental to social relationships. Behavior is driven by perceived costs and benefits derived from trades occurring between partners (e.g., sex, time, money) |
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| Relatively stable individual traits generate consistent patterns of behavior across situations. Big Five, erotophobia-erotophilia, sensation seeking, and sociosexuality are major personality traits associated with sexual behavior |
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| Human beings are motivated to produce as many of their own offspring as possible. We have evolved preferences for physical and psychological traits and characteristics in sexual partners that promote reproductive success |
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| Biological, psychological, and social factors interact to produce variations in sexual orientations and behaviors. The mind and body are fundamentally intertwined. Sexual health is not just the absence of biological dysfunction; it runs on a continuum with varying degrees of sexual illness and wellness |
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| The standard by which we judge our relationships |
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| Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism |
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| Erotophilia and Erotophobia |
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| The tendency to exhibit strong, positive emotions and attitudes towards sex; the tendency to exhibit strong, negative emotions and attitudes towards sex. |
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| The tendency to pursue thrilling and risky activities |
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| Desire for new and varied experience, related to lower sexual anxiety |
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| Dependable and responsible; low conscientiousness linked to having unprotected sex and combining drugs and alcohol with sex |
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| Caring and compassionate about other people; low agreeableness linked to having casual sex and combining drugs, alcohol, and sex; high and low levels linked to having more sexual partners |
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| Desire to interact with other people; linked to having more sexual partners and sexual risk taking; interpersonal assertiveness and dominance are linked to having more sexual partners |
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| Characterized by feelings of anxiety and insecurity; high neuroticism is linked to risky and unprotected sex |
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| A persons willingness to have sex in the absence of commitment and without an emotional connection to one's partner. |
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| Differences in men and women's approach to mating evolved because of the parental investment required to produce a child |
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| Biopsychosocial Perspective |
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| Proposes that one's health status is the result of a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors |
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| The scientific study of sex |
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| Consist of those individuals who are most readily accessible for research purposes. |
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| Identifies all members of the target population and contacting a subset of them at random to participate |
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| People are simply asked to report on their own sexual attitudes and practices. |
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| Not everyone you contact will want to participate in your study |
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| All the ways volunteers differ from nonvolunteers |
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| Socially desirable responding |
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| Tendency for subjects to present themselves in the most favorable light possible |
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| Researchers watch them with their own eyes and record what they see. |
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| the idea that research participants sometimes alter their behavior when they know others are watching |
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| Small circular tube that is placed around the base of the penis; measures penile circumference. |
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| Studies either one participant or a small group of participants in great depth and detail |
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| the rate at which new cases of a problem or disease occur |
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| Broader measure of the total number of people who are currently afflicted with a given problem or disease |
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| An association that exists due to some third factor that links the variables together. |
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| Individuals must be told up front the nature of the study, their rights as research participants, and the potential risks and rewards associated with their involvement. |
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| Participants must be told the true purpose of the research and be informed of any deception that took place |
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| Protecting the privacy of your research subjects |
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| A lengthwise slit is made in the upper portion of the foreskin |
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| Severe curvature of the penis, caused by a build-up of scarred tissue |
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| Semen mixed with secretions from the seminal vesicles and the prostate |
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| Anxiety that stems from a fear of semen loss |
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| A fear that the penis is shrinking and retracting inside the body |
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| The collective term that encompasses all of the external genital structure |
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| Involves permanently damaging or removing portions of a woman's external genitals when it is not medically necessary. |
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| When a mature egg is released by one of the ovaries |
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| When the endometrial lining of the uterus, which has built up in anticipation of pregnancy, sheds if conception does not occur |
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| Very general term that encompasses all of the emotional changes and physical discomfort might experience prior to getting her period |
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| Premenstrual dysphoric disorder |
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| When a women presents with at least five of the symptoms specified by the DSM |
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| When a woman has endometrial cells outside of her uterus |
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| Occurs when menstruation is absent |
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