Lesson 6: Sex and Senses

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visual

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sight

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Smell

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olfaction

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Hearing

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audition

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taste

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gustation

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Touch/Feeling

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tactile experience

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what are the senses

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1. Sight
2. Smell
3. Hearing
4. Taste
5. Touch/Feeling

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the totality of our sensory experiences and perception. Our bran organizes and interpret numerous stimuli into meaningful ideas useful for our choices and behavior.

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Sensorium

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postulates that in many cases, cognitive processing (i.e., higher order thinking) plays a lesser role compared to our emotional responses in eliciting behavior.

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Affective Primary Hypothesis

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• Our emotions take precedent primarily because there are only processed and modulated by the

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limbic system

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the emotional part of the brain which is more primitive compared to the ones responsible for higher order thinking (e.g., neocortex).

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limbic system

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It is where sensorium and human affect meets

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limbic system

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what are the Three basic emotional responses

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fight, flight, freeze

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we face adverse/dangerous stimuli squarely

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fight

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move away from dangerous stimuli

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flight

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startled and unable to move to make choices

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freeze

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Requirement to make choice or corresponding actions:

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✓ We should sense the environment
✓ Organize the stimuli we receive
✓ Interpret the stimuli

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some studies have explored gender differences in visual stimuli and sexual arousal.

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visual experiences

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respond more to visual sexual stimuli and tend to be influenced by the sex of the actors in a sexual scenario (i.e., how the other person looks physically or what the other people is wearing).

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men

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are more influenced by context and to the sexual content of a visual stimuli; nature of relationship (i.e., is the other person someone they know and can trust). Women and men differ in strategies of viewing sexual stimuli.

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women

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while human have limited olfaction (lesser level of olfaction), recent
studies suggest that sense of smell may play an important part in our sexual response.

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olfactory experiences

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• Study of Muscarella, Arantes, and Koncsol (2011) found that heterosexual females tend to prefer floral-sweet scent and want musky-spicy scent for their partners; heterosexual males and homosexual females preferred musky-spicy scent and liked their partner to floral-sweet scent; homosexual males preferred musky-spicy scent for themselves and their partner.

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olfactory experiences

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theuniquewaythatindividualsmells

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signature odor

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a set of proteins signaling our immune system the presence of foreign substances. Studies shows that humans are attracted to other people with diff. MHC.

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Major Histocompatibility Complex

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substances putatively excreted by our glands which signals mood and affects social behaviors.

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Pheromones

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(of opposite sex

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act as attractants

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of same sex

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repellants

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Scientist think that pheromones:

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• act as attractants (of opposite sex)
• Repellants (of same sex)
• Stabilizer of mother-infant bond
• Modulators of menstrual cycle

Question 28

touch is often observed as an element of intimacy. Elements of touch (experience relative to the object being felt): tactile (rough, smooth); thermal (warm, cold); and vibrational (pressure strong, weak, steady, moving, etc.).

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tactile experiences

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sensitive to touch; can become arousal points; often involved in reproductive and sexual act

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erogenous zones

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mouth, anus, genitals, and nipples

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primary erogenous zones

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back, neck, cheek, buttocks

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secondary erogenous zones

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When we touch, our body produces a hormone called

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oxytocin

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often referred to as the love hormone; influence tribal behavior and maternal bonding.

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oxytocin

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social interactions are not only visual but
are also auditory processes.

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auditory experiences

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words that trigger sexual response (i.e., during sex)

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verbal erotic encourage

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words that manifests feelings (e.g., I love you, I miss you)

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verbal expression of affection