PSY 240 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: John Calvin, Chastity Belt, Safe Sex
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Sexuality: a broad term that includes many facets of the way we experience our lives as sexual being. Sexuality encompasses our sexual behaviors,feelings,gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, and reproduction. It is influenced by physical, psychological, spiritual and cultural factors. Standards of normality(tiefer, 2004): subjective, statistical, idealistic, cultural and clinical. Asexual reproduction: a method of reproduction in which a single organism replicates itself. Nature v nurture: a psychology term related to whether heredity or the environment most impacts human psychological development (behavior, habits, intelligence, personality, sexuality, aggressive tendencies, and so on). Sociobiology/ evolutionary psychology: the study of how evolutionary forces affect our behavior. Natural selection: a process by which organisms that are best suited to their environment are most likely to survive. Traits that confer a reproductive advantage tend to be passed on, whereas maladaptive traits are lost. Mutation: a random change in the dna sequence of a gene.
