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1. REPORT IN
GENERAL
PSYCHOLOG
Y

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS

3. Gender and Sex
Gender
• perception of being male or female
• refers to the sense of maleness and femaleness
related to our membership in a given society
Sex
• refers to sexual anatomy and sexual behavior

4. Gender and Sex
Gender roles
• set of expectations, defined by a particular
society, that indicate what is appropriate behavior
for men and women
stereotyping
• judgments about individual members of group on
the basis of their membership in that group

5. Masculine Feminine
Strong Gentle
Energetic Softhearted
Stubborn Emotional
Lazy Talkative
Adventurous Sentimental
Logical Sensitive
Rational Fearful
Wise Dreamy

6. • limits both men and women behavior
• lead to unfortunate consequence of
preferential treatment of men

7. Gender and Sex
Sexism
• negative attitudes and behavior toward
a person based on that person’s gender

8. • Women – more suitable in “pink collar” jobs
– gets low salary and status than
men
- invisible barrier within an organization

9. • creation of hostile or abusive environment or
explicit coercion to engage in unwanted sexual
activity
• not necessarily about sexual
pleasure but about power/exerting
force on someone
• Targets: typically in lower-status
compounded with a sense of
helplessness and powerlessness

10. - Physical violence, touching, unnecessary
close proximity

11. - Comments and questions about appearance,
life-style, sexual orientation, offensive phone
calls

12. - whistling, sexually-suggestive gestures,
display of sexual materials

13. PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCED HARASSMENT BY
AGE

16. 1.Say ‘No’ or ‘Stop it’ firmly and loud enough
for someone to hear
2.Document the event/s
3.Inform someone about what happened
4.File a complaint

18. PERSONALITY and Cognitive
abilities
• Men are more aggressive than women.
• Women experience anxiety and guilt about their aggressiveness
and concerned about its effects on their victims
•Men have higher self-esteem than women
• Women evaluate themselves more harshly than man do
• Women’s speech are more precise
• Women look at their partner significantly more while listening
than while speaking
• Men look at their partner at the same level while listening and
speaking
• Men outperformed women in spatial and quantitative abilities
• Women outperformed men in verbal abilities

20. • suggest that sex differences are due to
evolutionary factors
• the source of gender differences is the
difference in physical capabilities of
man and woman

21. • process by which an individual
learns the rules and norms of
appropriate behavior
• refers to what society considers
appropriate behavior of men and
women
• a mental framework that organizes and
guides a child’s understanding of information
relevant to gender

22. Understanding Human
Sexual Response

23. • stage in development during which maturation of the
sexual apparatus occurs and reproductive capacity as is
attained.”
• comes from the Latin word pubertas, which means “age
of manhood”.
• refers to the physical rather than the behavioural
changes which occur when the individual becomes
sexually mature and is capable of producing off –
spring.

24. • comes from the Latin word adolescere, meaning “to grow” or “to
grow to maturity”.
• includes mental, emotional, and social maturity as well as physical
maturity.
• early Adolescence starts from 13 yrs. of old to 16 or 17 yrs. of
old
• late adolescence covers the period from then to 18 yrs of old, the
age of legal maturity. Late adolescence is thus a very short period.

25. OUTSIDE:
Penis – male organ of copulation.
Scrotum – is a bag that hangs beneath the
penis and contains the two testicles.
INSIDE :
Sperm – semen or a germ cell in it ; tiny
cells
Testicles – are glands, which are special
parts of the body that make chemicals.
Testosterone – a chemical that makes a
person grow into a man and feel like a man
Prostate, Seminal vesicles, Cowper’s
glands.
-together, these glands make a white, sticky
fluid called semen that sperm float in.
Vasa Deferentia
-which may carry sperm out of the testicles.
Urethra
-carries semen through the penis and out of
the body; also carries urine from the bladder.

26. OUTSIDE:
Labia Majora – enclose and protects other external
reproductive organs. Known as "large lips," , relatively large
and fleshy, and are comparable to the scrotum in males,
contains sweat and oil-secreting glands. After puberty, the
labia majora are covered with hair.
Labia Minora – lie just inside the labia majora and
surround the openings to the vagina and urethra.
Clitoris – a small, sensitive protrusion that is comparable to
the penis in males.
Bartholin’s glands – located beside the vaginal opening
and produce a fluid (mucus) secretion
INSIDE :
Vagina – is a canal that joins the cervix to the outside of
the body.
-also known as the birth canal.
Uterus / womb – is a hollow, pear –shaped organ that is
the home to a developing fetus
Cervix – lower part that opens into the vagina.
Corpus – the main body of the uterus.
Ovaries – are small, oval – shaped glands that are located
on either side of the uterus. The ovaries produce eggs and hormones.
Fallopian tubes – narrow tubes that are attached to the upper part
of the uterus, serve as tunnels for the ova (egg cells) to travel from
the ovaries to the uterus

27. THE BASIC BIOLOGY OF SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR
MALES FEMALES
• The testes begin to secrete • When they reach maturity
androgens, male sex hormones, and puberty, the two ovaries
at puberty. begin to produce estrogens
• Not only do androgens produce and progesterone, female
secondary sex characteristics, sex hormones.
such as the growth of body hair
• Follows a cyclical pattern.
and a deepening of the voice,
they also increase the sex drive. • The greatest output occurs
• Men are capable of (and during ovulation.
interested in) sexual activities
without any regard to biological
cycles.

28. MEN THINK
ABOUT SEX MORE
THAN WOMEN:
WHILE 54 % OF ME
REPORT
THINKING ABOUT
SEX EVERY DAY,
ONLY 19% OF
WOMEN REPORT
THINKING ABOUT
IT ON A DAILY

29. IT TAKES MORE THAN
HORMONES TO MOTIVATE & PRODUCE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
Humans are considerably more
versatile; not only other people but
nearly any object, sight, smell,
sound, or other stimulus can lead
to sexual excitement.

31. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF
SEXUAL EXCITEMENT: WHAT
Erogeneous zones PEOPLE ON?
TURNS Sexual fantasies

32. Genitals
- The male and female sex organs
Androgens
-Male sex hormones secreted by testes
Estrogen
-Class of female sex hormones
Progesterones
-Female sex hormone secreted by the ovaries
Ovulation
-The point at which an egg is released from the ovaries
Erogenous zones
- Areas of the body that are particularly of an unusually rich array of
nerve receptors

34. THE PHASES OF SEXUAL RESPONSE:
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SEX

35. Last from just a few minutes to
over an hour, an arousing stimulus
begins a sequence that prepares the
genitals for sexual intercourse.

37. The period in which the maximum
level of arousal is attained, the penis
and clitoris swell with blood, and the
body prepares for orgasm

38. • ORGASM
 The peak of sexual excitement, during which
rhythmic muscular contractions occur in the
genitals.

39. The interval after orgasm in which
the body returns to its unaroused
state, reversing the changes brought
about arousal.

40. A temporary period that follows
the resolution stage and during
which the male can not develop an
erection again.

42.  sexual self-stimulation

44. PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS MASTURBATED
(BY AGE)

45. • deviation from the average
• comparison of sexual behavior with
some standard and ideal
• consideration of the psychological and
physical consequences of the behavior to
the person and to others

46.  sexualattraction and behavior directed to
opposite sex
 sexualactivity practiced by people who were
unmarried

47.  view that premarital sex is permissible for males
but not for females
MANY SAYS THAT IT IS NOT
WRONG TO HAVE SEX BEFORE
MARRIAGE

48. sexual activity practiced by people who were
married
 sexualactivity practiced by people who were
married and someone who is not his/her spouse

49.  persons who are attracted of their same gender
 E.g. lesbian , gay
 personswho are attracted to both their same
gender and opposite gender

50. Researchers, particularly Kinsey, believed that reasons behind
homosexuality and bisexuality are that it depends on a person’s
sexual feelings and behaviors and romantic feeling.
Some researchers also includes reasons like because of their
environment or nature, genetics/hereditary, drugs during labor
and differences in brain structures.
Parent-child relationship, according to some psychologist, plays a
big part in producing Homosexuals and bisexuals, thou this
evidence are not supported.
 Some also theorizes that homosexuality and bisexuality are
learned or achieve through reward and punishment procedures.
This is called learning-theory explanation.

52.  people who believe they were born with the body
of the other gender
E.g. sex exchange operation
 one person forces another person to submit to
sexual activity
 crime most frequently appears in society

53.  a kind of rape where the rapist is either a date or
a romantic acquaintance
 frequently occurs in the teenage years with their
boyfriends

54.  for pleasure
 to demonstrate power
 to control their victim
 personal experience
 anger
Rapists are
masochist!

55.  commonly done by relatives than
strangers
 victims aged 7-13; while abusers
tend to be 20 years older than the
victims
 not only occur physically but also
through web

56.  fear anxiety
 depression, feeling of isolation
 anger
 hostility
 poor self-esteem
 self- destructive behavior
 they also become the abusers

57. •A disease acquired through sexual
contact. The united states highest
rate of social issues.

61. • inability of male to achieve or maintain an
erection
• could be cured by a drug called Viagra
• rare case: a male who has never been able to
have an erection
• common case: male who had an erection in
the past at least one, but is now unable to do
so.

62. • inability of a male to delay orgasms as long as
he wishes
• a psychological problem that maybe caused
by early sexual learning
• could be cured by redefining how long he
wants to delay his ejaculation.

63. • inability of a male to ejaculate when he wants
to
• could be cured by relaxation techniques
• when a motivation for sexual activity is
restrained or lacking entirely.

64. • lack of orgasm in a woman
• sometimes caused by insufficient stimulation
during intercourse
• rare case: a woman who has never experience
orgasm
• common case: a woman who once had an
orgasm and no longer does now