PSY 3122 Study Guide - Exhibitionism, Primal Scene, Physical Attractiveness
Document Summary
Sexuality and the life cycle: childhood and adolescence. The capacity of the human body to show a sexual response is present at birth; some males are born with erections while vaginal lubrication is found in females within the first. Mother-infant relationships involve a good deal of physical contact, engaging tactile, olfactory, visual, and auditory senses. Most activities involve sensitive organs (genitals, lips, mouth, and anus). These behaviours are part of erotic intimacy later in life. Marked increase in sexual interest and activity, usually at home more than at daycare. Masturbation: children increasingly gain experience with masturbation during childhood; studies show many children touch their genitals and some using their hands to masturbate, children also learn during this period that masturbation is something done in private. Freud uses the word latency to describe the preadolescent period following the resolution of the oedipus complex. He believes sexual urges go underground during this period and are not expressed.
