Describe the Two Different Compensation Philosophies

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Essay

Describe the two different compensation philosophies.

Explain the role of fantasizing in sexual arousal and desire.

Identify the factors contributing to sexual risk behaviors among adolescents and strategies for their prevention.

Understand the factors leading to sexual satisfaction and the role of communication in healthy sexual relationships.

Understand the concept of social scripts and their influence on sexual behavior.

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Definitions:

Bottom-up Processing

A cognitive approach where perception begins with stimuli originating in the environment, influencing our understanding from the basic sensory input toward more complex processing.

Structuralist Approach

A method in psychology that analyzes the basic elements of human thought and perception to understand the structure of the mind.

Inattentional Blindness

A psychological lack of attention not associated with vision defects or deficits resulting in the failure to notice an unexpected stimulus that is in one's sightline.

Gestalt Principle

Psychological theories that emphasize that the whole of anything is greater than its parts, especially in visual and perceptual organization.