Lessons 9-13: Relationships, Senses, Sexual Behavior, Discrimination, and LGBT Psychology

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the lecture transcript covering concepts of love, intimate relationships, biological senses, sexual behavior, discrimination, and LGBT psychology.

Love

An affective and cognitive inclination to someone.

Intimacy

Knowing and being known by someone deeply.

Passion

Drives towards sexual and romantic attraction.

Commitment

To engage and maintain a loving relationship.

Robert Sternberg

A psychologist renowned for his theories of love.

Love as a Culture Universal

A phenomenon cultures experience across time and culture.

Neurotransmitters

A variety of chemicals found in our nervous system.

Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA)

Part of our brain situated right behind our eyes.

Endorphins

Hormones that provide humans with a good mood.

Eros

The life drive or instinct in the psychodynamic view of love.

Thanatos

The death drive or instinct in the psychodynamic view of love.

John Alan Lee

A Canadian psychologist who created the Color Wheel of Love theory.

Primary Loves (Lee)

Eros (sexual and romantic), Philia (friendly), and Storge (parental/filial love).

Secondary Loves (Lee)

Pragma (practical love), Agape (universal love), and Philautia (self love).

Infatuation

A state of love where only Passion is present.

Liking

A state of love where only Intimacy is present.

Empty Love

A state of love where only Commitment is present.

Consummate Love

A state of love achieved when all three dimensions (Passion, Intimacy, and Commitment) are present.

Romantic Love (Hatfield & Rapson)

A state of intense longing for union with your partner.

Companionate Love (Hatfield & Rapson)

An intense state of intimacy.

Five Love Languages

Concepts created by Gary Chapman: Words of Affirmation, Touch, Time, Gifts, and Acts of Service.

George Levinger

Postulated the five stages that intimate relationships go through (ABCDE).

Propinquity or Proximity

Being physically closer to one another.

Infidelity

The breach of loyalty in a relationship.

Sensorium

The totality of our senses and perception.

Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC)

A set of protein molecules associated with signaling the immune system.

Affective Primacy Hypothesis (Zajonc)

Postulates that cognitive processing/higher-order thinking plays a lesser role compared to our emotional response.

Microsmatic

Organisms having lesser levels of olfaction.

Androstadienone (AND)

A testosterone substance found in male sweat, saliva, and urine.

Estratetraenol (EST)

An estrogen substance found in female urine.

1-Pyrroline

A chemical substance found in human semen, pubic sweat, and smegma.

Primary Erogenous Zones

Body regions very sensitive to touch: mouth, anus, genitals, and nipples.

Secondary Erogenous Zones

Body regions sensitive to touch that support the primary zones: back, cheek, neck, and buttocks.

Oxytocin

Referred to as the love hormone, produced by our body when touched.

Copulatory Behavior

The insertion of the penis into the vagina.

Ventral-Ventral Position

A copulatory position wherein the male and female species face each other.

Ventral-Dorsal Position

A copulatory position wherein the abdomen of the male species faces the dorsum of the female species, with insertion from behind.

Fellatio

Oral stimulation of the penis.

Cunnilingus

Oral stimulation of the vagina.

Masters and Johnson's Model

Proposed four phases in the sexual response cycle: Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm, and Resolution.

Tumescence

The elongation and stiffening of the penis during the excitement phase.

Kaplan's Model

Sees the sexual response cycle as having three relatively independent stages: Desire, Arousal, and Orgasm.

Paraphilia

Sexual arousal from nonliving objects or nonstandard urges/acts that last for at least six months.

Exhibitionism

Deriving sexual pleasure from exposing one's genitals to nonconsenting people.

Transvestic Fetishism

Sexual arousal in heterosexual males achieved specifically from wearing clothing of the opposite sex during sexual activities.

Voyeurism

Deriving sexual arousal from observing other people engaged in sexual activities.

Stereotype

An extremely generalized belief about a group of people.

Prejudice

An unjustified or incorrect attitude towards a person.

Discrimination

When stereotypes and prejudice are acted out negatively towards a person.

Apartheid

A system of separateness wherein one race is viewed as less than others.

Pederasty

A historical practice where all males were expected to take on a younger male lover.

Androgynous

People whose physical gender expression may or may not be distinctly male or female.

Gender Identity

How an individual feels internally as a man, woman, or neither.

Gender Expression

How an individual outwardly expresses their sense of being male, female, or neither.

Cisgender

When an individual's gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

Non-binary

People who do not feel exclusively like a boy or a girl, and may feel like both or neither.

FTM

Female to Male; a person whose biological sex is female and transitioned to living his life as a male.

MTF

Male to Female; a person whose biological sex is male and transitioned to living her life as a female.