PSY 3391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Libido, Estrous Cycle, Menstruation
29 Oct 2017
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Social cues most important one is the presence of females. Must have certain traits must be willing to have sexual activity, will shoes cues such as hopping or dancing around the male. Presence of a female will a ect both sexual motivation (appetitive behaviour) and performance (consummatory behaviour) in males. Called the coolidge e ect: enhanced mating performance of males with novel females. Is speci c to certain rodents, not all. Vast individual di erences exist in the amount of sex drive and sexual performance among individuals of many species. On a continuum between hyposexual and hypersexual, not a big correlation. We know the problem isn"t not all due to hormones, includes various regions in the brain, neurotransmitters, genetic di erences. Able to nd a female that is in heat (sexually receptive. When a female is in heat, she is in estrus. Estrus= : latin word for in a frenzy, or possessed by the gad y .
