Psychology 2075 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Sexual Activity, Havelock Ellis, Premarital Sex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Sexual behaviour: behaviour that produces arousal and increases the chance of orgasm. In this textbook, sex will be referred to as sex not gender. Science: important early sex researchers were sigmund freud, havelock ellis (believed that sexual deviations are normal and urged society to accept them), richard vin krafft-ebing and magnus hirschfield. The media: the mass media in north america today may play the same role that religion played in previous centuries, in communications theory, media can have 3 types of influence: Cultivation: people begin to think that what happens in the media/tv, is what actually happens in real life. Agenda-setting: media defines what"s important in our society by editing out what they don"t want you to see and cover stories to their own liking. Social learning: media provides role models whom we imitate. Culture: ideas and values that serve basis for patterns of behaviour observed in the group. There is enormous variations in human sexual behaviour around the world.