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• Physical Self


  Refers to the body which we interface with our environment and fellow beings
• 3 Basic Body Types

  • Endomorph
  • Mesomorph
  • Ectomorph
• Endomorph


  • Big, high body fat, often pear-shaped, with a high tendency to store body fat
• Mesomorph


  • Muscular and well-built, with a high metabolism and responsive muscle cells
• Ectomorph


  • Lean and long, with difficulty building muscle
• Different Schools of Thought View on the Physical Self

  • William James
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Wilhelm Reich
  • Erik Erikson
  • Carl Jung
  • Burrhus Frederic Skinner
• William James


  Considered the body as the initial source of sensation and necessary for the origin and maintenance of personality
• Sigmund Freud


  Construction of self and personality makes the physical body the core of human experience
• Wilhelm Reich


  Mind + Body = One, All psychological processes are part of the physical process and vice versa
• Erik Erikson


  Bodily organs is important in early developmental stages of a person's life
• Carl Jung


  Argued that the physical body and the external world can be known only as psychological experiences
• Burrhus Frederic Skinner


  The role of the body is of primary importance
• Self-Esteem


  Refers to the overall self-evaluation or sense of self worth
• 3 Different Kinds of Self Esteem

  • Low Self Esteem
  • High Self Esteem
  • Inflated Self Esteem
• Low Self Esteem


  Persons who do not value themselves and do not trust their possibilities
• High Self Esteem


  A positive self esteem, which makes the person be satisfied of themselves
• Inflated Self Esteem


  People who holds high regards of themselves
• Human Sexual Behavior


  Defined as any activity– solitary, between two persons, or in a group – that induces sexual arousal
• Men's sexual behavior


  Can occur any time, by being aroused to certain stimuli
• Male sexual development at puberty

  1. Testes begin to secrete androgens (male sex hormones) (testosterone and androgen)

  2. Produces secondary sex characteristics like growth of bodily hair and change in tone of voice
• Female sexual development at puberty

  Two ovaries begin to produce estrogens and progesterone (female sex hormones)
• Types of Sexual Behavior

  • Solitary Behavior
  • Sociosexual Behavior
• Promiscuous


  Having or involving many sexual partners
• Heterosexual


  Sexual attraction and behavior directed to other sex
• Homosexuality


  Romantic and/or sexual attraction between members of the same sex
• Transsexuality


  People who believed they were born with the body of the other gender and underwent surgery to change their gender
• Bisexuality


  Person who can be romantically or sexually attracted to same sex
• Transgenderism


  People who view themselves as a third gender, they are transvestites (who wears clothes of the other gender)
• Difference between Transsexuality and Transgender

  Transsexuality - underwent surgery to change gender

  Transgender - crossdressing (wearing clothes of the other gender)
• Erogenous Zone


  Part of the body that is particularly sensitive to touch, pressure and vibration which contributes to sexual arousal
• Phases of Sexual Response

  • Arousal/Excitement Phase
  • Plateau Phase
  • Orgasm Phase
  • Resolution Phase
• Arousal/Excitement Phase


  Subjective sense of sexual pleasure
• Plateau Phase


  Brief period of time before the orgasm, body's preparation for orgasm
• Orgasm Phase


  Intense, highly pleasurable experience
• Resolution Phase


  Stage where the decrease of arousal happens
• Calendar Method


  Avoiding coitus during the days that the woman is fertile
• Basal Body Temperature


  Monitoring the changes in the woman's temperature every morning before any activity
• Cervical Mucus Method


  Woman is fertile when the cervical mucus is profuse and watery
• Symptothermal Method


  Combination of Basal Body Temperature and Cervical Mucus Method
• Ovulation Detection


  Uses an over the counter kit that requires the urine sample of the woman