PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Human Sexual Response Cycle, Orgasm, Motivation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Kinsey was a biologist at the university of indiana. Wanted to understand more about sex and what people thought about it. Research from the last 10 years re ects a better estimation of sexual behaviour. More representative surveys suggest that people are not quite as kinky as kinsey reported, people still do a number of different sexual activities but not quite as commonly as kinsey thought. Master and johnson"s study of sexual response cycle. Wanted to know what happened to people when they were having sex. Psychological responses people experience and how they describe the experience. Brought subjects into a laboratory setting and had them have sex while they were hooked up to wires for their physiological readings. What they found has now become common knowledge in our culture. !1 source: university of waterloo psychology 101 course online. Lecture note: resolution: coming down phase, less excited and body returns to normal state.