PSYC 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Exhibitionism, Ecker, Visual Cortex

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 436
• Professor: Irving M Binik

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Ideally, these should be correlated, but they are not! Masters & johnson: arousal is simple reduce it to the underlying, biological correlates, arousal = vasocongestion of the genitals (blood pooling in the genitals) Reisenzein model: cognitive model - a process of appraisal of the stimuli. It"s i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d the sti(cid:373)uli: sexual arousal (october 18, 22 2016) If the appraisal is not good, it will block arousal. In the extreme, if the stimuli are negative can you still get arousal? (e. g. , women who are sexually assaulted) It does(cid:374)"t de(cid:374)(cid:455) that appraisal is i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t, (cid:271)ut it (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e (cid:374)e(cid:272)essar(cid:455) a(cid:374)d there (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:271)e a (cid:373)ore dire(cid:272)t connection b/w perception of sexual stimuli and psychophysiological responses of arousal. Dsm-iv: basically reduced arousal to a physiological component, adequate lubrication-s(cid:449)elli(cid:374)g respo(cid:374)se of se(cid:454)ual e(cid:454)(cid:272)ite(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) Measuri(cid:374)g (cid:862)o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863) arousal i(cid:374) me(cid:374) (cid:894)ge(cid:374)ital (cid:448)aso(cid:272)o(cid:374)gestio(cid:374)(cid:895: recall that objective is not necessarily better than subjective!