Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Sexual Activity, Vaginal Lubrication, Sociobiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Jeremy Roth

Document Summary

Theories are testable explanations concerning the causes and consequences of, in the present case, sexual behaviour. Read textbook chapter 2 prior to your encounter with this virtual lecture . Textbook chapter 2 provides overviews of a number of theoretical accounts of the causes and consequences of sexual behavior: sociobiology, psychoanalysis, cognitive theory, script theory, others. This virtual lecture provides somewhat more depth concerning psychoanalysis and sociobiology, as well as research evidence related to confirming or disconfirming these theories. This virtual lecture introduces the sexual behavior sequence theory of the causes and consequences of sexual behavior, in some depth, and presents evidence that is relevant to confirming or disconfirming the assertions of this theory. Theory: an empirically testable explanation for sexual (or any other) phenomena. Theories enable us to understand sexual behavior by providing an empirically testable account of the causes of such behavior .