PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Orgasm, Libido

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Lisa Henry

Document Summary

Legend: blue = online red = textbook green = lecture. The notion of inclusive fitness is an evolutionary theory for same-sex sexuality as those who cannot have their own children without external aids tend to turn their attention to their nieces and nephews who carry their familial genes. Psychodynamic theory: sigmund freud explains that the human psyche is divided into three parts. Each of these filter through the three levels of consciousness (conscious, preconscious, unconscious). Psychoanalysis is the process of recognizing these parts and correcting any disruptions. Personality formation comes from transitions through the first six years of a person"s life. Freud believed that successfully moving through these stages will allow for healthy gender and sexuality in an individual. Classical conditioning: pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response will result in forming a conditioned response. In sexuality research and therapy this conditioning theory is applied to fetishes and compulsive sexual behaviours.