FRHD 2100 Midterm: MIDTERM REVIEW

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Sexuality can be influenced by biological factors, but how we express our sexually is a matter of personal choice. Sex also relates to erotic feelings, experiences, or desires such as sexual fantasies, thoughts, urges, and feelings of sexual attraction. Psychophysiology: study of the relationship between the psychological and physical processes (body and mind) Research issues is that comparisons aren"t typically made using the same methodology and instrumentation. Gender: ones personal, social, and legal status of male and female. Gender roles: complex clusters of the way males and females are expected to behave within a given culture. Human sexuality: the ways we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings. At its most basic level, sex provides physical pleasure. Sexuality can also be a key component of personality development. Sexual self-actualization: a state in which a person in comfortable with their sexuality. Scientists from many disciples explore the parallels between sexual behavior of humans and those of other animals.