Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brining, Kwazulu-Natal, Condom

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

People with the most negative emotional responses to pornography had the most children (1) sexual emotions: intense, characteristic, generalized, and consequential. Erotophobic = uncomfortable with anything sexual (2) contraception is hard to do: Not having babies involves performance of complex series of contraceptive behaviours (3) sexual emotions drive selective avoidance or approach of contraception. Aka whether you will follow the above steps or not. Campus wide intervention reduces university student pregnancy rates. There was a 27. 7% decrease in student pregnancy rates in the years 1983-1984. 1. self-acceptance of sexuality (i am a legitimately sexual being: learning relevant information about hiv (transmission and prevention) 3. brining up, negotiating prevention or existing an unsafe situation (can we talk about using a condom?: public preventative acts (buy condoms, seek hiv testing. ) 5. consistent practice of prevention and self-and partner-reinforcement (feeling of relief, expressions of thanks: shifting preventative scripts (going from abstinence to hiv testing or protected intercourse)