UTS - Sexual Self Flashcards
Physical characteristics that are present at birth. It is also the characteristics that distinguish males from females.
Primary Sex Characteristics
It is the development during the onset of puberty
Secondary Sex Characteristics
The areas of the body that are highly sensitive and produce sexual response when stimulated. These includes the genitals, mouth, breast, ears, anus and to a lesser degree, the entire surface of the body
Erogenous Zones
Play an important role in sexual arousal of humans.
Cognitive Factors
It influences the expression of sexual desire.
Culture
“Four Phases of Sexual Response” is a study by?
William Masters and Virginia Johnson
It is a phase where the beginning of sexual arousal and can last from one minute to several hours.
Excitement Phase
It is the phase where the change in the body continue
Plateau Phase
A phase where contractions of muscle in and around the penis stimulate the release of semen which contains the sperm cells.
Orgasmic Phase
A phase where the body return to its normal state after orgasm.
Resolution Phase
It is an important stage in sexual development. It is the time when many boys and girls first experience their first sexual attraction.
Puberty
Influence attraction in several ways such as in determining who are appropriate as lovers and spouse
Social Norms
The degree to which a person’s physical traits are regarded as aesthetically pleasing or beautiful.
Physical Attractiveness
The social exchange theory.
Processes of Interpersonal Exchange
Proposes that attraction is the result of an exchange process. People also tends to view relationships as the result of the rewards and costs they entail.
Social Exchange Theory
It refers to the feelings of closeness, connectedness and bondedness.
Intimacy Component
It refers to the drives that leads to romance, physical attraction and sexual consummation.
Passion Component
It refers to the decision to love and the commitment to maintain that love.
Commitment Component
Includes a complex combination of different emotions such as fear, anger, sexual desire, joy and jealousy. Some of this emotions may also be sources of suffering (Santrock, 2012). It aalso has a strong component of sexual attraction and infatuation and is often experienced in the early stage of a love relationship.
Romantic Love
Driven by desire for sexual attraction
Lust
Often associated with sexual attraction
Attraction
Occurs when individuals desire to connect with another person
intimately, also be called affectionate or companionate love.
Attachment
She says “Biological anthropologist and expert in the science of human attraction suggest that the important ingredients of romantic love; lust, attraction and attachment.”
Helen Fisher
He defines attachment as a strong affectionate tie that binds a person to an intimate companion. Maintains that the quality of early parent-child attachment has lasting impact on the kind of relationships people have later in life, including romantic relationships. Also the ability to form a stable and close relationships begins at infancy, in a child earliest experience with a caregiver who meets his or her needs.
John Bowbly
