PSYC 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Sexual Activity, Castration Anxiety, Oedipus Complex
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Psychoanalytic theory: freud proposed that sexuality and eroticism are fundamental forces of life. Castration anxiety: electra complex: girl falls in love with her father and sees her mother as a rival. Penis envy: the oedipus complex gets resolved when the children adopt the appropriate gender roles. Sex is a shaped behaviour and is a primary reinforce: behavioural modification techniques used to change an individual"s behaviour based on classical and operant conditioning principles, sexual behaviour can be reinforced or punished. For example, a woman who experiences pain during intercourse: social learning based on operant conditioning, imitation and identification, social exchange theory assumes people will choose actions that maximize rewards and minimize costs. Sexual scripts theory: our sexual interactions follow a set of learned responses (behaviours, gestures, rules, expectations, etc. ) that are understood as appropriate in a given sexual situation. Scripts are used to interpret sexual situations: rules and etiquette of sex, transmitted through socialization.
