PSYCH 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Bsc Young Boys, Twin Study, Twin

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3830
• Professor: Jo Jorgensen

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Psyc 3830 lecture 19 (chapters 6 & 10) Memory loss for just about everything, can even forget who you. Depersonalization: distortion in perception of one"s own body/experience. Only diagnosed if this is the primary problem. Males: value arousal, have fewer negative core beliefs about sex, tend to emphasize dominance and aggression more, have historically been more ok with premarital/casual sex. Usually get better on your own (often don"t need treatment) Preference for individuals of the same, other, or either sex. Sexual orientation is a continuum, not three distinct categories. Freud: overbearing mother and weak father (no proof of this) Sometimes boys would masturbate and there happened to be male stimuli (no proof of this either) homosexual (strongest predictor) Most psychologists believe there is a biological basis (genetic) 75-90% of highly feminine young boys eventually turn out to be. Chance that identical twin of gay man is also gay is 52%