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1
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what is sexual selection (darwin)?

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it is a selection that involves differences in traits affecting access to mates
1-competition among genders
2-preferential choice

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what is psychoanalytic theory?

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by freud who saw sex as one of the key forces of human life

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what is the Id

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basic personality presented at birth
includes libido
operates on pleasure principle
can be irrational

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what is the Ego

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operates on the reality principle
tries to keep the Id in line

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what is the Superego?

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is your conscious
contains values
operates on idealism
aims to inhibit impulses of Id

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what are the 3 erogenous zones?

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  1. lips and mouth
  2. genitals
  3. rectum and anus
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what are the 5 stages of psychosexual development (freud)?

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stage 1: ORAL PHASE (birth-1) - the main pleasure for this child is sucking
stage 2: ANAL PHASE: (age 2) - during this stage the child is focused on elimination
stage 3: PHALLIC STAGE: (age 3-5/6) - boys and girls are focused on their genital area, development of the Oedipus complex
stage 4: LATENCY (lasts until adolescence) - sexual impulses are repressed
stage 5: THE GENITAL STAGE (puberty) - sexual urges become more gential and oral, anal and genital urges fuse together

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what is social exchange theory (SET)?

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assumes that all people will choose actions to minimize costs and maximize rewards

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what is gender schema theory?

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gender schema theory explains gender role development and the impact of gender on people’s daily lives and thinking

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what are the 4 essential assertions of feminist theory?

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  1. gender as status and inequality
  2. sexuality
  3. gender roles and socialization
  4. intersectionality
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what is performativity?

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Performativity refers to ways in which we perform gender or sexuality based on society’s norms, much as actors perform in a play

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what is the excitement phase?

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the beginning of erotic arousal

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what is Vasocongestion?

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is it the physiological process that occurs during excitement producing an arousal repsonse

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how does an erection result?

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when the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum fill with blood

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what is vasoconstriction?

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what makes an erection go away

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what happens when females get excited?

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the capillaries in the vagina walls dilate and blood flow increases
Vaginal lubrication results when fluids seep through the semipermeable membranes of the vagina walls

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what happens when a woman is close to orgasm?

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the orgasmic platform forms
this is the tightening of the bulbospongiosus muscles around the entrance of the vagina

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what are the 2 stages of male orgasms?

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  1. the preliminary stage
  2. the second stage (nameless?)
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what happens during the first (preliminary) stage of men’s orgasm?

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the vas, seminal vesicles, and prostate contract, forcing ejaculation

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what happens during the second stage of men’s orgasm?

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the urethral bulb, muscles at the base of the penis and urethra contract rhythmically, forcing semen through the urethra

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what are the 3 stages of Kaplans triphasic model?

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  1. sexual drive
  2. vasocongestion of the genitals
  3. muscular contractions of orgasm
22
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what are the 3 basic components of a spinal reflex?

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  1. the receptors - detect stimuli and transmit messages to the spinal cord
  2. the transmitters - what receives that message and interprets it
  3. the effectors - neurons or muscles that respond to stimuli
23
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what are the 3 main problems of ejaculation?

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  1. rapid ejaculation
  2. male orgasmic disorder
  3. retrograde ejaculation
24
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what neurochemicals are involved during excitation?

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dopamine
melanocortin
norepinephrine

25
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what are the four sex positions mentioned in textbook?

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The man on top position (missionary)
the woman on top (cowgirl)
the rear entry (doggy)
mouth genital (69ing)

26
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what are 2 other terms for anal sex?

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sodomy
greek style sex

27
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what is an aphrodisiac?

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An aphrodisiac is a substance such as a food, a drug, or a perfume, that excites sexual desire

28
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what was the ancient greeks’ outlook on sex?

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openly acknowledged homosexuality
(the myth about the individual with double limbs)

29
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what was 15th-century Christians’ outlook on sex?

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believed “wet dreams” resulted from intercourse with spiritual creatures
women were tried as witches
wet dreams, sexual dysfunction and lust was witchcraft

30
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what was Muslims’ outlook on sex?

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believed sexual intercourse was one of life’s finest pleasures
sex was first a source of pleasure than means of reproduction

31
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what did Dr. Clelia Mosher do?

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she was a physician who spent 30 years conducting a sex survey for victorian women

32
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what did Henery Havelock Ellis do?

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was a physician in victorian England
he compiled info on sexuality and medical and anthro findings

33
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What did Richard Von Krafft-Ebing do?

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a german physician who specialized in “perversions”

34
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What did Magnus Hirschfeld do?

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a german physician who founded the first sex institute

35
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what did Alfred Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson do?

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work related to sexual disorders and the physiology of sexual response

36
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in 2020, what % of Canadian adults were online

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92%

37
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what percent of males and females viewed/engaged in sexual content online?

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86% of males
39% of females

38
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what is ethnocentrism?

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the influence on peoples understanding of sexual behaviour

39
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Premarital sex (what are the two cultures on polar opposite ends)?

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The Marquesans of eastern Polynesia: both males and females have participated in a variety of sexual acts before puberty
The Siwans in Egypt: the girls clitoris is cut off at age 7/8 to decrease excitement about premarital sex

40
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what is sociobiology

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evolutionary biology used to understand social behaviour

41
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evolutionary psychology

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how natural selection shaped our brains rather than behaviour directly

42
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sexual strategies

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women compete for men, women looking for a long term partner should be mean looking for women looking for a short term partner (bc they make sex easily available to men)

43
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gender binary

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the idea that masculinity and femininity are mutually exclusive and that everyone is one or the other

44
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sexual script

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a set of expectations that tells us the who what when where and why of sexual behavior

45
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hard to reach populations

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populations who are not outward about identity and do not want to share

46
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probability sampling

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a way of finding participants so that each member of pop has an equal chance of being in the sample

47
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social desirability

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distorting survey answers to what one thinks is socially acceptable
enlargement - bragging or exaggerating
concealment - minimizing or downplaying

48
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convergent reliability

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scale is correlated with things that you would expect to correlate with

49
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the excitement inhibition model

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is gas and breaks (everyone has things that make them excited, but they also always need things that make them unexcited)

50
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intimacy model

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you can have the spontaneous drive but can also have sex to create intimacy which in turn, create sexual drive

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