Human sexuality exam #1
1. What is sexuality?: a uniquely human trait, more than just mating rituals or attraction
2. Sexologists: specialize in studying human sexuality
3. What is sexual objectification?: representing or treating a person as a sexual object
4. Puritans: established a Biblical based society in the colonies
5. Antimiscegenation laws: - helped maintain the racial caste system
- gave white men more power to control sexual choices of white women
6. Comstock Act of 1873 (removed in 1965): prohibited mailing obscene writing or ads, including
contraceptive info and artwork containing nudity
7. Sexology: Scientific pursuit to understand human sexuality
8. Stonewall raid: alot of people dies, first time that the gay community resisted for the first time
9. Sigmund Freud: - most influential psychological theory of sexuality
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,- personality conformation
- psychosexual development
10. Personality formation -> 2 drives: libido and thanatos
11. Libido: life/sexual motivation (dominant)
12. Thanatos: death/aggressiveness motivation
13. Personality formation -> 2 divisions to personality: levels of operation and guiding
identities
14. Personality formation levels of operation: Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
15. Conscious: info in awareness
16. Preconscious: info within recall, but not in awareness
17. Unconscious: inaccessible, the most important level of operation
18. Personality formation guiding identities: id, ego, and superego
19. Id: immediate satisfaction
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, 20. Ego: reality; balances id and superego
21. Superego: values and restrictions; conscience
22. Oral stage: 0-18 months, pleasure centers on the mouth
23. Anal stage: (18-36 months) pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; anus
24. Phallic stage: (3-6 years) pleasure zone is the genitals
25. Latency stage: 6 years-puberty
26. Genital stage: puberty-death, maturation of sexual interests
27. Behavior theory: Focuses on overt behavior; ignore internal stages
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1. What is sexuality?: a uniquely human trait, more than just mating rituals or attraction
2. Sexologists: specialize in studying human sexuality
3. What is sexual objectification?: representing or treating a person as a sexual object
4. Puritans: established a Biblical based society in the colonies
5. Antimiscegenation laws: - helped maintain the racial caste system
- gave white men more power to control sexual choices of white women
6. Comstock Act of 1873 (removed in 1965): prohibited mailing obscene writing or ads, including
contraceptive info and artwork containing nudity
7. Sexology: Scientific pursuit to understand human sexuality
8. Stonewall raid: alot of people dies, first time that the gay community resisted for the first time
9. Sigmund Freud: - most influential psychological theory of sexuality
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,- personality conformation
- psychosexual development
10. Personality formation -> 2 drives: libido and thanatos
11. Libido: life/sexual motivation (dominant)
12. Thanatos: death/aggressiveness motivation
13. Personality formation -> 2 divisions to personality: levels of operation and guiding
identities
14. Personality formation levels of operation: Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
15. Conscious: info in awareness
16. Preconscious: info within recall, but not in awareness
17. Unconscious: inaccessible, the most important level of operation
18. Personality formation guiding identities: id, ego, and superego
19. Id: immediate satisfaction
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, 20. Ego: reality; balances id and superego
21. Superego: values and restrictions; conscience
22. Oral stage: 0-18 months, pleasure centers on the mouth
23. Anal stage: (18-36 months) pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; anus
24. Phallic stage: (3-6 years) pleasure zone is the genitals
25. Latency stage: 6 years-puberty
26. Genital stage: puberty-death, maturation of sexual interests
27. Behavior theory: Focuses on overt behavior; ignore internal stages
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