HLE Exam 2 Flashcards
What are the characteristics of a healthy relationship?
Genuineness
Empathy
Unconditional positive regard
What are the qualities of nonsexual intimate relationships (Family, Friends, Peers)?
Companionship
Respect
Acceptance
Help
Trust
Loyalty
Mutuality
Reciprocity
What is jealousy?
Jealousy is the angry, painful response to a partner’s real, imagined, or possible involvement with something outside the relationship, like a person or activity.
How do you healthily end a relationship?
- Give the relationship a fair chance
- Be fair and honest
- Be tactful and compassionate
- If you feel rejected, make time for resolving your anger and pain
- Recognize the value in the experience
- Use the recovery period for self-renewal and be aware of the impulse to “rebound”
How do you effectively communicate with your partner?
- Self-disclosure
- Understanding instead of judging, blaming, advising, or taking control
- Reciprocal constructive feedback
What are the steps to resolving conflict?
- Clarify the issue
- Find out what each person wants
- Determine how both gets what they want
- Decide how to negotiate and be willing to compromise
- Solidify agreements verbally or in writing
- Review and renegotiate
How can a couple have a mutual relationship?
Doing things together, effective communication
What are the external female sex organs at birth called?
Vulva
What is the name of the thin membrane partially covering the vaginal opening?
Hymen
What is the hollow organ (size and shape of upside down pear) AKA the womb?
Uterus
What is the narrow, lower third that opens into the upper part of the vagina called?
Cervix
What functions do the vagina have?
Sexual and reproductive
What are the organs that surround an ovary and guide the mature egg into the uterus called (AKA oviducts)?
Fallopian tubes
What are the most noticeable male genitals called?
Penis and scrotum
What consists of the glans, shaft, and spongy tissue that becomes engorged with blood during sexual excitement?
Penis
What is the head of the penis called?
Corona
What is the spongy body lying on the top of the penis called?
Corpora cavernosa
What is the spongy body lying on the bottom of the penis called (also runs through the urethra)?
Corpus spongiosum
What is the hood or sheath-like covering over the glans called?
Foreskin or prepuce
What is the pouch containing the sperm-producing gonads (testes) called?
Scrotum
What is the fluid that carries sperm called?
Semen
The process starts with a mature egg traveling out of the follicle into the oviduct (fallopian tube) to be fertilized by the sperm, and it travels into the uterus, where the zygote is implanted into the endometrium.
Conception
When can a fetus survive outside the uterus (womb)
What are the early signs of pregnancy?
First three months: Uterus enlarges to about three times its nonpregnant size
Seventh to eighth month: uterus pushes towards ribcage
Nipples enlarge and darken