STRESS AND COPING AND SEXUALITY Flashcards
A physical and mental response to a
challenging or threatening situation
stres
A stressful stimulus, a condition demanding
adaptation
stressor
what nervous system prepared the body for fight or flight to allow humans for the best chance of survival
sympathetic nervous system
The body’s __ nervous
system returns to normal after the stressor
has been removed
parasympathetic
Hans Selye’s General Adaptation
Syndrome Theory proposes four stages
involved in adapting to stress:
alarm
fight or flight
exhaustion
return to normal
what are the 3 stages of the GAS
alarm reaction
resistance
exhaustion
Sudden Activation of the
sympathetic nervous system fight or flight.
alarm reaction
you face the challenge. Body
temp, blood pressure, and respiration stay
high. Can wear oneself out if maintained
for too long
resistance
you are more vulnerable to
illness, collapse, or even death
exhaustion
is about who you are
attracted to and what to have relationships
with
sexual orientation
It is also associated with the reference to
biological and physiologic characteristics
that define men and women
sexuality
• Social concept on how men and woman
should think, feel and act.
• Feminity or masculinity.
gender
• The way we experience and express
ourselves as a sexual being.
• Being male or female
• This involves biological erotic physical
emotional social and spiritual feelings and
behaviors
human sexuality
• Permits man and woman equal enjoyment
of human rights.
• Also known as sexual equality ; ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender
gender equality
Set of roles, characteristics, and
expectations on how a man woman should
feel and act as influenced by parents,
peers and society ; sex role, social role encompassing racial behaviors and attitude ; based on their actual or perceived sex
gender role
Refers to gender that is male or female to
which a person is attracted to.
sexual orientation
considered to be straight
are people who are romantically and
physically attracted to members of the
opposite sex. Men are attracted to
female and females are attracted to
males
heterosexual
are people who are
romantically and physically attracted to
people of same sex.
homosexual
romantically and physically attracted to
members of both sexe
bisexual
represented in all walks of life
across all nationalities or ethnic
backgrounds and in all social and
economic groups
gay people
found to affect
young people’s sexual behavior by
influencing children’s self-confidence and
interaction competence
family structure
reproduced both
through parental explicit prohibitions and
their own behaviors
sexual norms
Communicable disease that is spread
from person to person through sexual
contact.
sexually transmitted disease
Infecting other individuals through blood
and bodily fluids unprotected sex and
several factors associated with it
AIDS