Review Flashcards on Sexual Motivation, Emotion, Stress & Health

Flashcards to help review key vocabulary and concepts from the lecture notes.

Sexual Motivation

A natural drive that motivates individuals to engage in sexual activity, essential for reproduction and species survival.

Masters and Johnson Study

The physiological exploration of sex conducted in the 1960s with 382 females and 312 males; filmed more than 10,000 sex cycles.

Excitement Phase

Phase of the sexual response cycle where genitals become engorged with blood, and women secrete lubricant.

Plateau Phase

Phase where excitement peaks, breathing and pulse increase, and orgasm feels imminent.

Orgasm

Phase with muscle contractions all over the body; women's contractions help propel sperm.

Resolution Phase

Phase where the body slows down, and men enter a period where they cannot achieve another orgasm.

Sexual Dysfunction

A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning.

Paraphilias

Unusual sexual interests that cause distress or involve harm to others.

Estrogen

Female sex hormone.

Testosterone

Male sex hormone.

Heiman 4 Tape Study

Finding sexually explicit images arousing, regardless of personal feelings.

Adverse Effects of External Sexual Stimuli

The impact of movies depicting coerced sex on viewers' acceptance of the false idea that women can enjoy rape and increase male viewer's willingness to hurt women

Belongingness

Need for social connectedness and relationships with others.

Ostracism

Social exclusion that leads to demoralization and depression.

Components of Emotion

Physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.

James-Lange Theory of Emotion

The experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli; emotions follow the body’s response to an event

Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion

Emotion-arousing stimulus triggers physical response and subjective emotion simultaneously.

Schachter Two-Factor Theory of Emotion

To experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal.

Spillover Effect

Arousal response to one event spills over into response to the next event.

"Low Road" of Emotion Processing

Neural pathway from thalamus to amygdala, enabling quick responses to fear stimuli.

"High Road" of Emotion Processing

Neural pathway from thalamus to cortex to amygdala, allowing for thoughtful analysis of emotions.

Sympathetic Nervous System

Division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing it in stressful situations.

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body after a stressful situation

Optimal Arousal

The level of arousal at which performance is at its peak.

Polygraph

A device that measures emotion-linked changes in body's physical responses, often used in lie detection.

Microexpressions

Brief facial expressions that can reveal true emotions.

Universal Facial Expressions

Six universally recognized facial expressions: happy, surprise, fear, sadness, anger, disgust.

Facial Feedback Effect

Tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings.

Health Psychology

Subfield of psychology that contributes to behavioral medicine.

Stressors

Events/things that stress us out; catastrophes, significant life changes, daily hassles

Stress

Process by which we perceive and respond to threatening or challenging events.

General Adaptation Syndrome

Body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Tend and Befriend

Under stress, people often provide support to others and seek support from others.

Psychophysiological Illness

"Mind-body" illness; stress-related illness.

Psychoneuroimmunology

Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system.

Lymphocytes

White blood cells that are part of the immune system.

B Lymphocytes

Form in bones and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections.

T Lymphocytes

Form in lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.

Coronary Heart Disease

Clogging of vessels that nourish heart muscle.

Type A Personality

Competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people (workaholics).

Type B Personality

A personality type defined as easy-going and relaxed people.