differences in baseline arousal level lead people to be extraverts or introverts. The Yerkes–Dodson law states that an optimal level of arousal for performance...
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intercourse, and continue during intercourse. Male arousal will lead to an erection, and in female arousal, the body's response is engorged sexual tissues...
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adult patient may increase agitation. Confusional arousals can occur during or following an arousal of deep sleep (see slow-wave sleep) and upon an attempt...
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psychology, misattribution of arousal is the process whereby people make a mistake in assuming what is causing them to feel aroused. For example, when actually...
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Low arousal most likely refers to when a person is in a state of low arousal. It can also refer to: Low arousal approach, deals with how staff handles...
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that would normally produce sexual arousal, or the inability to attain or maintain typical responses to sexual arousal. The disorder is found in the DSM-IV...
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Yerkes–Dodson law (redirect from Optimal arousal)
performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases. The process...
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moments of crisis. Arousal refers to physiological arousal (e.g. heart rate) in response to stress, as opposed to sexual arousal. A low arousal approach to supporting...
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Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD), originally called persistent sexual arousal syndrome (PSAS), is spontaneous, persistent, unwanted and uncontrollable...
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Human sexual response cycle (redirect from Arousal phase)
sexual arousal and genital arousal. Research by Meredith L. Chivers and J. Michael Bailey indicates that men tend to show category-specific arousal; that...
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sexual arousal disorder (FSAD) is a disorder characterized by a persistent or recurrent inability to attain sexual arousal or to maintain arousal until...
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AROUSE OSU is an Internet radio station run by students of Ohio State University, broadcasting exclusively online. AROUSE OSU is overseen by an executive...
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Parasomnia (redirect from Arousal Parasomnia)
between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between...
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arousal in the body can be transformed into another type of arousal. For example, sometimes people can be sexually stimulated from residual arousal arising...
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referring to physical attractiveness. It may also refer to: Sexual arousal, the arousal of sexual desire, during or in anticipation of sexual activity Sexual...
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Epididymal hypertension (redirect from Sexual arousal orchialgia)
uncomfortable sensation in the genital regions during a prolonged state of sexual arousal. It usually resolves within hours unless relieved through an orgasm. In...
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Emetophilia, also known as Roman shower, is the sexual arousal from vomiting,: 373 being vomited on or watching others vomit. The fetish is considered...
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Erogenous zone (category Sexual arousal)
Weil, Zachary; Pfaff, Donald (2011). "How generalized CNS arousal strengthens sexual arousal (and vice versa)". Hormones and Behavior. 59 (5): 689–695...
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excluding arousal from body parts in its diagnostic criteria for fetishism. In 1987, the revised DSM-III-R introduced a new diagnosis for body part arousal called...
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Reticular formation (redirect from Ascending reticular arousal system)
wakefulness; behavioral arousal and consciousness are functionally related in the reticular formation using a number of neurotransmitter arousal systems. The overall...
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Clitoral erection (category Sexual arousal)
associated with sexual arousal. Erections should eventually subside, and the prolonged state of clitoral erection even while not aroused is a condition that...
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Two-factor theory of emotion (redirect from Cognitive arousal theory of emotion)
physiological arousal occurs and the person uses the immediate environment to search for emotional cues to label the physiological arousal. The theory was...
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activity in order to transcend their state of abnormally low arousal. This low arousal results in the inability or difficulty to sustain attention on...
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individual's sexual arousal. Adult women and men report that breast stimulation may be used to both initiate and enhance sexual arousal, and a few women...
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Norepinephrine (redirect from Modulatory arousal system)
so-called fight-or-flight response. In the brain, norepinephrine increases arousal and alertness, promotes vigilance, enhances formation and retrieval of...
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respectively, under conditions of high affective arousal relative to under conditions of low affective arousal. Affect may be elicited by the stimulus or situation...
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Paraphilia (redirect from Deviant sexual arousal)
A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. It...
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distributed in a two-dimensional circular space, containing arousal and valence dimensions. Arousal represents the vertical axis and valence represents the...
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Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (redirect from Male sexual arousal disorder)
context. Female sexual interest/arousal disorder is defined as a "lack of, or significantly reduced, sexual interest/arousal", manifesting as at least three...
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Vaginal lubrication (category Sexual arousal)
wall. Composition varies with length of arousal. During arousal, vaginal lubrication, also sometimes called "arousal fluid", is produced. This is clear, thin...
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