exam 2 chapter 14

Question 1

sexual dysfunction

Answer 1

centers primarily on difficulties with sexual desire, arousal, orgasm, ejaculation, and/or pain during sex; 30-47% (women) and 20-31% (men) prevalence

Question 2

paraphilias

Answer 2

involve strong sexual preferences for sexual gratification that cause significant disruption to personal or interpersonal functioning; any intense and persistent sexual interest other than sexual interest in genital stimulation or preparatory fondling with phenotypically normal, physically mature, consenting human partners; distress or impairment; harm or risk to others; troubling, problematic to individual or others (victims); do not require the criterion of personal distress/impairment to be diagnosed

Question 3

sexual “self-schema” vs “self-efficacy”

Answer 3

self-schema: perception of self as relates to sexual activity
self-efficacy: beliefs about one’s performance; may interact with physical symptoms

Question 4

“sexual scripts”

Answer 4

expectations, roles, conditions, and activities can contribute to difficulty, particularly if inflexible

Question 5

pedophilia

Answer 5

female victims more common than male victims; though those who target boys tend to have more victims and higher rates of recidivism; often, perpetrators are not distressed