Psych 3060 chapter 4

Both men and women can experience nipple erections during the excitement phase

True

Many women do not separate desire from excitement

True

Regular use of cocaine often leads to erectile problems and difficulties reaching orgasm

True

The secretion of fluids from the vaginal walls may slow down if the plateau phase is prolonged

True

Vaginal lubrication is actually super filtered blood plasma

True

Some women emit a fluid during orgasm that comes from the _____

Urethra

Tissues becoming filled with blood during sexual arousal is called _____

Vasocongestion

When clitoris pulls back and disappears beneath the clitoral hood, it means that a women is less sexually aroused than before

False

the first physiological signs of arousal in men occur within seconds, but takes several minutes to begin in women

False

Many people have tried to enhance their sexual desire or performance by taking substances called _____, but there is little evidence that they have any real effect

aphrodisiacs

This chapter follows the model of sex therapist _____ and includes ____ as the first phase

Helen Kaplan, deire

____ observed and recorded physiological responses from hundreds of people engaged in sexual activity

Masters and Johnson

Women are incapable of reaching orgasm during intercourse without simultaneous _____ stimulation

clitoral

Freud believed that there were two types of female orgasms, one caused by ____stimulation, and another by _____ sensations

clitoral, vaginal

Masters and Johnson originally claimed that all female orgasms were identical and were focused in the _____

clitoris

An awareness that one wants or wishes to attain a sexual goal

desire

The expulsion of semen from the penis is called _____

ejaculation

Stimulation of this area (sensitive area on wall of vagina) sometimes resulted in _____ during orgasm

emission of fluid

Men's orgasms occur in two stages ____ and ______

emission, expulsion

unlike most men, some women can have ____, defined as two or more orgasms in quick succession without dropping below plateau level

multiple orgasms

Most women say that the size of a partner's penis is ____ for their pleasure during intercourse

not important

The engorgement and swelling of the vagina was named the ____ by Masters and Johnson

orgasmic platform

Vasocongestive response results in ____ in men, and _____ in women.

penile erection, vaginal lubrication

In some women, the fluid was identified as urine, but in others it contained an enzyme found in secretions from men's _____

prostate gland

Aslo, during the plateau phase, the clitoris _____

pulls back against the pubic bone and disappears beneath the clitoral hood

After ejaculating, most men have a period of time called the ______ during which it is impossible to have another orgasm

refractory period

The period where men cannot have another orgasm is called the ____

refractory period

the return to the unaroused state is called _____

resolution

At the time of orgasm, both men and women have ____ in specific tissues that initially occur every .8 seconds

rhythmic muscular contractions

Most women and many men get a skin rash called the _____ when they become highly sexually aroused

sex-tension flush

The pattern of responses is often referred to as the _____

sexual response cycle

Men's and women's descriptions of orgasm are _____

similar

Two theories of why women have orgasms are _____ and ______

evolutionary adaptionist theory, byproduct theory

Masters and Johnson divided the physiological responses during sex into four phases:

excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

Many women have a sensitive area on the ____ wall of the vagina called the _____

front, grafenberg (G) spot

A sensitive area that is found on the front of the vagina wall in about 10% of women is called _____

grafenberg (G) spot

The presence of vaginal lubrication means that a women is ready to begin sexual intercourse

False

Early in the plateau phase, _____% of all women and about 25% of all men experience a rash on the skin called _____

50-75%, sex-tension flush

Generally speaking, descriptions of orgasms written by women can be easily distinguished from those written by men

False

Orgasm and ejaculation occur at the same time in men and are actually the same event

False

By most estimates, only _____ of adult women experience orgasm regularly during sexual intercourse

50-75%

A man's penis size is related to his height, weight, and race

False

penis starts to become erect, clitoris pulls back against the pubic bone, sex-tension flush appears, clitoris is most prominent at this time, scrotum thickens and helps pull the testicles toward body, walls of inner two thirds of vagina begin to balloon out, labia major flatten and spread apart

Excitement phase

During the ____ phase in women, the tissue of the outer third of the vagina become swollen with blood, causing the vaginal opening to narrow

Plateau

In women, physiological arousal does not correlate well with _____, which depends more on relationship and intimacy needs

subjective arousal

recent studies indicate that the real essence of orgasm is not in the genitals but in ____

the brain

There is more variation in penis length in an unaroused condition than in an erect state

true

The first physiological response in the excitement phase for both men and women is a ____ response

vasocongestive