Understanding Self (Uself) Flashcards
The beginning of the adolescence is mark by
rapid physical changes, including the
maturation of the reproductive system and the
development of _______ and _________ sex
characteristics.
Primary; Secondary
“The essence of love is the gift of myself. No other
gift, no other service can substitute for myself. Love
is a very personal, intimate gift. Some part of myself
must be given- or my act is not an act of love at
all.”
James Sullivan
Are the physical
characteristics present
at birth.
Primary
Develops during the
onset of puberty.
Secondary
AKA balls) are 2
ball-like glands inside your scrotum. They
make sperm and hormones like testosterone.
Testicles
is a tube where your sperm
matures.. And it holds your sperm before you
ejaculate (cum).
EPIDIDYMIS
is a muscle that moves your
scrotum and testicles closer to your body. This
happens when you’re cold, you’re aroused,
or when someone touches your inner thigh.
CREMASTER
makes a fluid that helps your sperm move. It’s about the size of a golf ball.
Prostate Gland
Produce a fluid called
pre-ejaculate or pre-cum. It reduces friction so your semen can
move more easily.
COWPER’S GLANDS
The urethra is the tube that carries urine (pee),
pre-ejaculate, and semen to your urethral opening and out of your
body.
Urethra
2 small organs that produce
semen, the fluid that sperm moves around in.
SEMINAL VESICLES
also called the head or tip of
your penis. This is where pre-ejaculate and
semen come out of, and it’s where you pee
out of.
Glans
extends from the tip to where
it connects to your lower belly. It looks like
a tube. Your urethra is inside the shaft.
Shaft
is a patch of skin that
covers and protects the head. When your
penis gets hard, the foreskin pulls back and
the tip is exposed.
Foreskin
is where your foreskin meets the underside of your penis. It looks like a small V just below the head. Usually part of it remains after circumcision.
Frenulum
is the sac of skin that hangs below your penis. Your scrotum holds your testicles and keeps them at the right temperature. Scrotum is covered with wrinkly skin and hair.
Scrotum
Ridge of tissue around
the glans of the penis.
Corona
is a canal that joins the
cervix (the lower part of uterus) to the
outside of the body. It also is known as the
birth canal.
Vagina
is a hollow, pear-shaped organ that is the home to a developing fetus. The uterus is divided into two parts: the cervix, which is the lower part that opens into the vagina, and the main body of the uterus, called the corpus. The corpus can easily expand to hold a developing baby.
Uterus
are small, oval-shaped glands that are located on either side of the uterus. The ovaries produce eggs and hormones.
Ovaries
serve as pathways for the ova (egg cells) to travel from the ovaries to the uterus. Fertilization of an egg by a sperm normally occurs in the fallopian tubes.
Fallopian Tubes
are folds of
skin around your vaginal opening.
Labia
are
usually fleshy and covered with
pubic hair.
labia majora
are inside your outer lips.
labia minora
Everyone’s is a
different size. It can be about as
small a pea or as big as a thumb.
Clitoris
right below your urethral opening.
OPENING OF THE VAGINA
After puberty, it’s covered with pubic hair.
It cushions your pubic bone.
MONS PUBIS
They release fluid that
lubricates your vagina when you’re turned on.
BARTHOLIN’S GLANDS
The hymen is the thin, fleshy tissue that stretches
across part of the opening to the vagina.
HYMEN
swells when you’re turned on.
Some people like the feeling of having their G-spot touched.
G-SPOT - Gräfenberg spot,
The urethral opening
is the tiny hole that you pee out of, located just below your
clitoris.
OPENING OF THE URETHRA
Individuals having accessory
reproductive structures that do
not match their gonads
PSEUDO-HERMAPH
RODITES
Failure of the testes to make their
normal descent
CRYPTORCHIDISM
Narrowing of foreskin of the male
reproductive organ and misplaced
urethral openings.
PHIMOSIS
are describe as the parts of the body that are chiefly sensitive and
cause increased sexual arousal when touched in a sexual manner.
EROGENOUS ZONE
Main erogenous zones include:
Mouth
Breasts (consisting of nipple
and lateral breast tissue)
Reproductive organs such as
penis and vagina
Anus
Neck, thighs, abdomen, ears
and other body surface.
Defined as an activity – solitary, between persons, or in a group that
includes sexual arousal.
HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
TWO MAJOR FACTORS OF HUMAN SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR
A. Inherited Sexual Response
B. Degree of Restraint
means ensuring reproduction that are part of each individual’s genetic
inheritance.
Inherited Sexual Response
Influence exerted on the individual by society in the expression of his
sexuality.
Degree of Restraint
the insertion of the male reproductive organ into the female reproductive
organ.
COITUS
depends on society, is sexual activity practiced
by
people before they are married.
PREMARITAL
seen as obligation, is a socially sanctioned long-term
mating
arrangement .
MARITAL
condemned/double standard, occurs when a
married person engages in sexual activity with
someone other than his or her spouse.
EXTRAMARITAL
ignored, Sex with your ex; often shameful, and rarely a good idea. The imbibing of too much alcohol and the existence of too much loneliness are contributing factors to this condition.
POST MARITAL
describe the changes that occur in
the body as men and woman become sexually aroused. This
include excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution phase.
A sexual-response cycle
degree to which
a person’s physical traits are regarded as pleasing or
beautiful.
PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS
-determining who are the appropriate
as lovers and spouses.
SOCIAL NORMS
attraction is result of an exchange process (sharing of social things).
SOCIAL EXCHANGE
includes a complex combination of
different emotions such as anger, fear, sexual desire,
jealousy which may also be the sources of sufferings.
ROMANTIC LOVE
ROSENBERG COMPONENT
OF LOVE
INTIMACY
PASSION
COMMITMENT
refers to the decision to love and
the commitment to maintain that love.
COMMITMENT
refers to the drives that lead to romance,
physical attractions and sexual consummation.
PASSION
refers to the feeling of closeness,
connectedness and bondedness.
INTIMACY
FISHER INGREDIENTS OF
ROMANTIC LOVE
LUST
ATTRACTION
ATTACHMENT
Drive by the desire for sexual-gratification.
LUST
– is associated with sexual attraction.
ATTRACTION
occurs when an individual desires
to connect with another person intimately.
ATTACHMENT
defines strong romantic love as affection
that binds a person to an intimate
companion.
JOHN BOWLBY
The ability to form stable and
close relationship begins at ______, in a
child’s earliest experiences with a caregiver
who meets his or her needs.
infancy
that young children need to develop a
relationship with at least one primary
caregiver for normal social and emotional
development.
ATTACHMENT THEORY
orientation includes individuals who don’t experience sexual attraction to
others of any gender.
Asexual
A sexual orientation that describes those who experience sexual, romantic, or
emotional attractions to people of more than one gender.
Bisexual
A term that describes people who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional
attraction to people of the “opposite” gender or a different gender.
Heterosexual
An outdated term rooted in the fields of medicine and psychology that refers
to individuals who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to
people of the same or a similar gender.
Homosexual
A term that describes individuals who can experience sexual, romantic, or
emotional attraction to any person, regardless of that person’s gender, sex, or
sexuality
Pansexual
A term used to refer to those who reject sexuality labels or don’t identify with
any of them.
Pomo-sexual
also referred to as “in the closet,” describes people in the LQBTQ++
community who don’t publicly or openly share their sexual identity, sexual
attraction, sexual behavior, gender expression, or gender identity.
Closeted
On the asexual spectrum, this sexual orientation describes individuals who
experience sexual attraction only under specific circumstances, such as after
building a romantic or emotional relationship with a person.
Demi-Sexual
A term that describes individuals who experience sexual, romantic, or
emotional attraction to people of the same or a similar gender.
Gay
A woman or female-identified person who experiences sexual, romantic, or
emotional attraction to people of the same or a similar gender.
Lesbian
A word used to describe those who experience attraction based on
intelligence, rather than sex or gender.
Sapio-Sexual
They may be classified as physiological, psychological and social. Any
given problem may evolve all three categories: a physiological problem, for
examples, will produce psychological effects, and may result in some social
maladjustment. A psychological problem constitutes by far the largest
category.
SEXUAL PROBLEMS
Inability to become aroused or reach orgasm seems to be as common
in homosexual as in heterosexual relationships.
SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
is a specific disorder of arousal. The problem here is not desire. Many
males with erectile dysfunction have frequent sexual urges and
fantasies and a strong desire to have sex.
ERECTILE DISORDER
A sexual dysfunction specific to women refers to difficulties with
penetration during attempted intercourse or significant pain during
intercourse.
GENITO-PELVIC PAIN
which the pelvic muscles in the outer third of the vagina undergo
involuntary spasms when intercourse is attempted. Women report
sensations of “ripping, burning, or tearing during attempted
intercourse”
VAGINISMUS
a person is sexually attracted to nonliving objects.
FETISHISTIC DISORDER
inability to emit semen during coitus.
EJACULATORY IMPOTENCE
painful sex and generally physical rather than psychological.
DYSPAREUNIA
are contracted primarily through sexual contact (vaginal, oral or
anal sex).
Sexually transmitted infections and sexually transmitted disease
Infections caused by direct contact with body fluids such as through blood transfusion, breast feeding, and sexual intercourse. It attacks the immune system and the infected person might eventually dies.
HIV/AIDS
Is caused by gonococcal bacteria
which attack the lining of the mucous
membrane such as mouth, throat
vagina and urethra.
GONORRHEA
infects the genital areas and other
parts of the body including the
brain and can cause paralysis or
even death when untreated.
SYPHILIS
It is caused by bacterium
chlamydia trachomatis. In men, it
can cause swollen testicles and a
burning sensation during urination.
CHLAMYDIA
It can caused itching and
tingling sensations, abscesses, and
blisters in genital areas. There is no
cure for herpes.
herpes
Are caused by human
papillomavirus and woman with HPV
are prone to cervical cancer. Though
warts can be removed, they may recur.
WARTS
is a bacterial
infection that causes open sores on or
around the genitals of men and women.
CHANCROID
This natural method involves abstaining from sexual intercourse and the
most effective natural birth control method.
Abstinence
An over the counter kit that can predict ovulation. Require the woman
urine.
Ovulation Detection
The basis of this method is the changes in the cervical mucus during
ovulation. To check if the woman is ovulating, the cervical mucus must be
copious, thin and watery.
Cervical Mucus
Method
Combination of BBT method and cervical mucus method. The woman
takes her temperature every morning before getting up and also takes note
of any changes in her cervical mucus every day.
Symptothermal
Method
This is one of the oldest methods of contraception. The man withdraws the
moment he emits semen and emits it outside the female reproductive
organ.
Coitus Interruptus
Involves refraining from coitus during the days that the woman is fertile.
Calendar Method
Also known as pill, oral contraceptives
contains synthetic estrogen and
progesterone.
CONTRACEPTIVES
combination of both estrogen and
progesterone in a form of patch. For three
weeks, the woman should apply one patch
every week.
TRANSDERMAL PATCH
a silicon ring inserted vaginally and remains
there for three weeks, then removed on the
fourth week as menstrual flow would occur.
VAGINAL RING
two rod-like implants embedded under the
skin of the woman during her menses.
SUBDERMAL IMPALANTS
the injection inhibits ovulation and causes
changes in the endometrium and the cervical
mucus.
INJECTIONS
T-shaped object that is inserted into the
uterus via female reproductive organ. It is
inserted after the woman’s menstrual flow
to be sure that she is not pregnant.
INTRAUTERINE DEVICE
It works by inhibiting the entrance of the
sperm into the female reproductive organ.
It is a circular, rubber disk that fits the
cervix and should be placed before coitus.
DIAPHRAGM
Made up of soft rubber and fitted on the rim of the
cervix. It is shape like a thimble with a thin rim
and could stay in place not more than 48 hours.
CERVICAL CAP
Synthetic rubber sheath that is placed on the erect
male reproductive organ and traps the sperm
during emission of sperm. It also prevent from
acquiring of STDs.
MALE CONDOMS
It has inner ring that covers the cervix and an
outer. These are disposable and require no
prescription.
FEMALE CONDOMS
applicable for male wherein, it is executed
through a small incision made on each side
of scrotum. The vas deferens is then tied,
cauterized cut to block the passage of
sperm.
Vasectomy
perform by occluding the fallopian tubes
through cutting, cauterizing or blocking to
inhibit the passage of the both sperm and
ova.
Tubal ligation
guarantees universal
access to method of contraception, fertility control, sexual education,
and maternal care.
Thus Reproductive Health Law or RH Law
Our wanting to have and possess has a connection with another aspect of the self.
THE
MATERIAL
SELF
Tangible objects, people or
places that carry the
designation “my, mine”.
THE
MATERIAL
SELF
TWO CATEGORIES:
- The Bodily Self
- Extracorporeal Self
–
extended self
William James,
1908
Tangible objects, people or
places that carry the
designation “my, mine”.
extended self
Extracorporeal Self
Possessions do not just
have value; they are not
merely economic
commodities.
Levi-Strauss, 1965
Role/Functions of Possession are
also vehicles and
instruments for realities
of another order:
Influence
Power
Sympathy
Social status
are
symbols of
ourselves and of
our identity.
Possessions
is an item used to provide psychological comfort, especially in unusual or unique situations, or at bedtime for children.
comfort object or security
blanket
We value item
much more highly
just as soon as we
own them.
THE
ENDOWNMENT
EFFECT
FOUNDING FATHER OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Jean Piaget
peaked at middle
adolescents, just when
self-esteem tended to be
Materialism
is an
effective antidote to the
development of materialism.
sense of
self-worth and
accomplishment
is a persistent difficulty
discarding or parting with possessions because of a
perceived need to save them. A person with hording
disorder experiences distress at thought of getting
rid of the items.
Hoarding Disorder
As our lives unfold, our things embody our sense of selfhood and identity still further, become external receptacles for our memories, relationships and travels.
ADULTHOOD
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF CAN BE EXAMINED THROUGH ITS DIFFERENT COMPONENTS
- Its constituents
- The feelings and
emotions they arouse –
self-feelings - The actions to which
they prompt –
self-seeking and
self-preservation
William James,
1908
THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY
The constituents
The constituents of
self are composed of
the:
MATERIAL
SELF
SOCIAL SELF
SPIRITUAL
SELF
The innermost part of
our material self
Body
An essential part of the
material self
CLOTHES
any time we bring an object into the surface of our body, we invest that object into the consciousness of our personal existence taking in its contours to be our own.
“The Philosophy of Dress”
by Herman Lotze
The fabric and style of the clothes we wear bring sensations to the body to which directly affect our attitudes and behavior.
CLOTHES
Our parents and siblings
hold a great important
part of our self.
IMMEDIATE
FAMILY
The earliest nest of our
selfhood.
HOME
To be materialistic means to have values that put a relatively high priority on making a lot of money and having many possessions, as well as on image and popularity, which are almost always expressed via money and possessions.
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