01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Orgasm, Ovulation, Fetus

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Professor Marvasti

Document Summary

Sexual response cycle: the four stages of sexual responding described by masters and johnson excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. Refractory period: a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm. Estrogens: sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females than by males and contributing to female sex characteristics. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity. Testosterone: the most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional levels in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty. Sexual orientation: an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one"s own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation) Emotion: a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.