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Chapter 10 (Barlow) Flashcards

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1
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2 kinds of sexual behavior

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Sexual dysfunction
Paraphilic disorders

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Individuals with this problem find it difficult to function adequately while having sex

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Sexual dysfunction

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Relatively new term for sexual deviation, sexual arousal occurs primarily in the context of inappropriate objects or individuals.

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Paraphilic disorders

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Refers to a strong attraction or liking

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Philia

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Indicates the attraction is abnormal.

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Para

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There is incongruence and psychological distress and dissatisfaction with the
gender one has been assigned at birth

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Gender dysphoria

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7
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Core beliefs about sexuality

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Sexual self-schemas

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Sexual urges occur in response to sexual cues or fantasies.

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Desire phase

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9
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A subjective sense of sexual pleasure and physiological signs of sexual arousal

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Arousal stage

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10
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Brief period occurs before orgasm.

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Plateau phase

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In males, feelings of the inevitability of ejaculation, followed by ejaculation; in females, contractions of the walls of the lower third of the vagina.

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Orgasm phase

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12
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Decrease in arousal occurs after orgasm
(particularly in men).

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Resolution phase

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Refers to a chronic condition that is present during a person’s entire sexual life

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Lifelong

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Refers to a disorder that begins after sexual activity has been relatively normal.

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Acquired

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15
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Occurring every time the individual attempts sex

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Generalized

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Occurring with some partners or at certain times but not with other partners or at
other times

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Situational

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17
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Characterized by little or no interest of males in sex that is causing significant distress in the
individual or couple.

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Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder

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18
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Deficits in interest or the ability to become aroused in women is combined in a disorder

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Female sexual interest/arousal disorder

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Males who have little or no interest in any type of sexual activity.

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Hypoactive sexual desire disorder

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Females who have little or no interest in any type of sexual activity.

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Female sexual interest/arousal disorder

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A specific disorder of arousal; males have frequent sexual urges and fantasies and a strong desire to have sex.

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Erectile disorder

22
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The old and somewhat derogatory terms for male erectile disorder and female interest and arousal difficulties

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Impotence
Frigidity

23
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Males who achieve orgasm only with great
difficulty or not at all meet criteria for a condition

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Delayed ejaculation

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Females who achieve orgasm only with great
difficulty or not at all meet criteria for a condition

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Female orgasmic disorder

25
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Ejaculatory fluids travel backward into the bladder rather than forward.

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Retrograde ejaculation

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Ejaculation that occurs well before the man and his partner wish it to, defined as approximately 1 minute after penetration

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Premature ejaculation

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A sexual dysfunction specific to women refers to difficulties with penetration during attempted intercourse or significant pain
during intercourse.

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Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder

28
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Most usual presentation of genito-pelvic pain/
penetration disorder; pelvic muscles in the outer third of the vagina undergo involuntary spasms when intercourse is attempted

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Vaginismus

29
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3 major aspects to the assessment of sexual behavior

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Interviews
Thorough medical evaluation
Psychophysiological assessment

30
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According to which we all operate by following “scripts” that reflect social and cultural expectations and guide our
behavior

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Script theory

31
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Works by creating a vacuum in a cylinder placed over the penis.

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Vacuum device therapy

32
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Person is sexually attracted to nonliving objects

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Fetishistic disorder

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A third source of attraction is a part of the body, such as the foot, buttocks, or hair.

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Partialism

34
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Practice of observing, to become aroused,
an unsuspecting individual undressing or naked.

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Voyeuristic disorder

35
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Achieving sexual arousal and gratification by exposing genitals to unsuspecting strangers

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Exhibitionistic disorder

36
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Sexual arousal is strongly associated with
the act of (or fantasies of) dressing in clothes of the opposite sex, or cross-dressing

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Transvestic disorder

37
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Inflicting pain or humiliation and becoming sexually aroused

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Sexual sadism disorder

38
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Suffering pain or humiliation and becoming sexually aroused

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Sexual masochism disorder

39
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Involves self-strangulation to reduce the flow of oxygen to the brain and enhance the sensation of orgasm.

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Hypoxiphilia

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Sexual attraction to children (or young adolescents generally aged 13 years or younger)

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Pedophilia

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If the children are the person’s relatives, the pedophilia takes the form of?

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Incest

42
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Patients associate sexually arousing images in their imagination with some reasons why the behavior is harmful or dangerous.

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Covert sensitization

43
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Patients are instructed to masturbate to their usual fantasies but to substitute more desirable ones just before ejaculation.

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Orgasmic reconditioning

44
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Present if a person’s physical sex (male
or female anatomy, also called “natal” sex) is not consistent with the person’s sense of who he or she really is or with his or her experienced gender.

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Gender dysphoria

45
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Individuals who are born with ambiguous genitalia associated with documented hormonal or other physical abnormalities.

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Disorders of sex development (DSD)

46
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Disorders of sex development (DSD) is formerly known as?

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Intersexuality or hermaphroditism

47
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Gender dysphoria begins with a strong and specific sexual attraction to a fantasy of oneself (auto) as a female (gyne).

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Autogynephilia

48
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Set of behaviors and attitudes where boys who behave in feminine ways and girls who behave in masculine ways; what makes them that way and following what happens to them

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Gender nonconformity

49
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Sexual attraction to both their own and the opposite sex.

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Bisexuality

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