SOCI 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Etiology, Vulvodynia, Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Chapter 8
Key Terms
Somatic nervous system
• One of two major divisions of the human nervous system
• Under voluntary control
Autonomic nervous system
• The second major division of the human nervous system
• Under involuntary or automatic control
Sympathetic division of the ANS
• Involved in general physiological arousal and in sexual response, more active in orgasm
Parasympathetic division of the ANS
• Involved in general physiological relaxation, and in sexual response, is more active in
erection and arousal
Four-phase odel of sexual arousal Masters ad Johso’s odel of arousal
• A model of sexual arousal first proposed by Masters and Johnson, based on research,
which involves excitement (genital arousal), plateau, orgasm, and resolution with males
having a refractory period after orgasm before additional arousal is possible and
females being capable of having multiple orgasms prior to resolution
Kapla’s three-phase model of arousal
• Model of sexual arousal first proposed by Kaplan, based on research, which shows two
physiological/neurological mechanisms – genital arousal and orgasm
• Three phases of sexual response
o Desire
o Excitement (genital arousal)
o Orgasm
Wale ad Roth’s cogitive odel of arousal
• Model of sexual arousal first proposed by Walen and Roth that places a significant role
for perception at each stage of sexual response, including evaluating a stimulus,
evaluating arousal and evaluating behavior
Aphrodisiac
• Substance that is believed to increase sexual arousal but whose action is strictly due to
belief
• Placebo effect
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