Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Parasympathetic Nervous System, Clitoris, Orgasm
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It doesn"t matter how you were getting aroused; from a physiological perspective we always follow the same basic response pattern. It is important to remember that this is the average persons response patterns: well this model is criticized on the grounds that it doesn"t fit very well with subjective experience, it remains an important contribution to sexual science. Kaplan"s triphasic model: this model fits better with the subjective experience of sexual arousal in response, and. Kaplan believed that it more closely matches the neurological data in regard to sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activation: desire, a psychological stage no physiological response, just subjective feelings of wanting to be sexual. Involves muscular contractions: no resolution phase in this model she didn"t feel it was required. Techniques of arousal: although a lot of topic in this course heighten some anxieties and some people, the techniques of arousal section has been proved to be one of the major offenders in this regard.