GenSoc Lesson 3

• Affective Primacy Hypothesis


  Postulates that in many cases, cognitive processing (i.e., higher order thinking) plays lesser role compared to our emotional responses in eliciting behavior
• Sensorium


  The totality of our senses and perceptions; a conglomerate of the individual sense organs
• Primary emotional responses


  • Visual
  • Olfactory
  • Tactile
• Visual memory is deemed superior to other forms
• Visual Experience


  Humans are predominantly visual. Our societies highly rely on visual culture to co-create meaning and convey information. For instance, our language has a visual component, as observed from our writing system.
• Olfactory Experience


  Olfaction in non-human animals, which are believed to be microsmatic organism, or organisms having greater sense of smell, have been an interest among psychologists since the 1950s.
• Heterosexual females like wearing floral sweet but musky-spicy scent to be worn by their partners.
• Human Affect and the Senses

  Interestingly, while human beings are hailed as rational beings who are constantly making choices and are behaving through a set of rational choices made from higher order thinking (e.g., evaluating, judging), it is hypothesized that our affect (emotions and feelings) actually play a major role in our behaviors
• Heterosexual males and homosexual females preferred wearing musky-spicy scent and liked their partners to wear floral-sweet scent.
• Homosexual males wanted musky-spicy for themselves and their partner.
• Fight, flight, freeze

  What are humans' three primary emotional responses?
• Fight

  This response involves confronting the perceived threat or danger aggressively. 
• Flight

  This response involves running away from the perceived danger or threat.
• Freeze

  This response involves a physical immobility, where the body does not think it can fight or flee the threat. 
• Visual, olfactory, tactile

  What are the primary emotional responses?
• Muscarella, Arantes, and Koncsol (2011)

  They were explored on the preferred scent among heterosexual and homosexual males and females.
• Pheromone

  A substance believed to be emitted by organisms and which is thought to be influencing social behaviors.
• Tactile experience

  Touch is observed to be an element of intimacy. Our body is covered in skin, often referred to as the largest bodily organ.
• Primary erogenous zones and secondary erogenous zones


  What are the two types of erogenous zones?
• Auditory experience

  It is a social interactions are not only visual, but are also auditory process. Our human language often have a verbal counterpart to he written language.
• Sexual behaviors

  These are actions that humans agree to interpret as an expression of their sexual motivations or intentions.
• Auto-erotic

  These are the activities that individuals engage in to experience sexual pleasure or arousal without the involvement of a partner.
• Erotic

  This refers to things that are related to or evoke feelings of sexual desire, arousal, or passion.
• Sexual Response Cycle

  This is for heterosexual couples, one of the ultimate goals of the sexual act is reproduction. This is made possible through the fertilization of the ovum by a sperm, which necessitates ejaculation from the human male into the internal reproductive system of the human female.
• Heteroerotic

  This refers to sexual attraction between members of different sexes.
• Homoerotic

  This refers to sexual attraction between members of the same sex, including both male–male and female–female attraction.
• Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

  These are parts of Master and Johnson’s Model (1966, 1970)
• Desire, arousal, orgasm

  These are parts of Kaplan’s Model (1979)
• Sexual Response Dysfunctions

  • Sexual desire disorder
  • Sexual arousal disorder
  • Orgasmic disorder
  • Sexual pain disorder
• Sexual desire disorder, sexual arousal disorder, orgasmic disorder, sexual pain disorder


  What are the following Sexual Response Dysfunctions?
• Psychosomatic


  A psychological or emotional issues can contribute to or exacerbate sexual difficulties. (e.g. Anxiety, stress, and depression.)
• Organic


  Factors include chronic illness, pregnancy, pharmacologic agents, endocrine alterations, and a host of other medical, surgical, and traumatic factors.
• Paraphilias


  While there are typical sexual behaviors among humans, there are also those behaviors that are relatively atypical due to any of the following reasons.

  They are not prevalent

  They are dangerous to self and to others

  They are bizarre and are not socially acceptable

  They are distressing either to the doer or to other people involved in the act.
• Exhibitionism, Fetishism, Frotteurism, Pedophilia, Sexual masochism, Sexual sadism, Transvestic fetishism, Voyeurism


  What are the following Paraphilic Disorders?