Psych #2 definitions basic
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 traditional batterer | cycle of violence |
| episodic batterer | rare eruptions |
| rapid cycler | violent in many situations (gang) |
| hyperalgesia | exaggerated response to noxious stimuli |
| allodynia | normally innocuous stimuli produce pain |
| sexual health | an integral part of a person's well being; teh person's sense of themselves as healthy or unhealthy includes their sexual functioning |
| sxual identity | the person's biological characteristics |
| gender identity and role | person's sense of maleness or femaleness, what a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of man/woman |
| sexual orientation | object of the person's sexual impulses (opposite sex, same sex, or both sexes) |
| sexual behavior | physiological responses and behaviors related to expression of sexual feelings |
| gender constancy | awareness that gender doesn't change (by age 7) |
| sexual dysfunction | disturbance in the processes that characterize the sexual response cycle or pain associated with sexual intercourse |
| Distraction | thoughts or fantasy unrelated to sex during sexual activity |
| anxiety | fear and worry about possible inadequate sexual performace |
| behavior | inadequate communication with partner regarding sex- due to cultural rules or other |
| appetitive | fantasies about and desire for sex |
| excitement | subjective sense of pleasurable sexual arousal and accompanying physiological cahnges |
| orgasm | peaking sexual pleasure with release of tension and rhythmic contraction |
| resolution | muscle relaxation and feeling of well being |
| hypoactive sexual desire disorder | persistent or recurrent deficiencies in or absence of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity |
| sexual aversion disorder | persistent or recurrent extreme aversion to, avoidance of all (almost all) genital sexual contact with a partner. Person fears or is disgusted by sexual contact |
| female sexual arousal disorder | persistent or recurrent inability to attain, or to maintain until completion of the sexual activity, an adequate lubrication-swelling |
| male erectile disorder | response of sexual excitement or erection (male) |
| Dyrpareunia | recurrent or persistent genital pain associated with sexual intercourse in either a male or female |
| vaginismus | recurrent or persistent involuntary spasm of the musculature of the outer 1/3 of the vagina that interferes with sexual intercourse |
| early ejaculation disorder | persistent or recurrent ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or shortly after penetration and before person wishes it |
| female and male orgasmic disorder | persistent or recurrent delay in or absence of orgasm following a normal sexual excitement phase |
| hypersexual disorder, non paraphilic | sexual behaviors usually considered as normal, but its taken to a compulsive extreme |
| paraphilias | divergent behaviors outside of the norm (sexual) |
| exhibitionism | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the exposure of one's genitals to an unsuspecting stranger |
| fetishism | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges behaviors involving the use of nonliving objects |
| frotterism | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges involving touching, rubbing against a non-consenting person |
| pedophilia | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges involving sexual activity with a prepubescent (under 13) child for six months. Individual must be 16 and be 5 years older than that child (if you at on these distress isn't necessary for diagnosis) |
| sexual masochism | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges involving act (real, not simulated) of being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer |
| sexual sadism | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges in which psychological or physical suffering (real, not simulated) of a victim is sexually exciting to the person |
| transvestic fetishism | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges involving cross dressing |
| voyeurism | recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges involving act of observing an unsuspecting person who is naked in process of disrobing or engaged in sexual activity |
| covert sensitization | pairing images of negative consequences with sexual arousing fantasies)- de-conditions the pleasure response |
| gender identity disorder | strong and persistent cross-gender identification, person wants to live the life of the other sex, discomfort with one's own sex that causes distress or impairment in functioning |
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