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Exigency theory
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Exigency theory In psychology, the theory that, regardless of its determinants, human responsivity is contingent upon five universal exigencies of existence: Pairbondedness; Troopbondedness; Ycleptance, Abidance; and Foredoomance.
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Psychology
The scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
Pairbondedness
The proclivity or tendency to form pairbonds; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
Ycleptance
The tendency to name and describe one's environment, and to seek explanation and predictability for events; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
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Eunuchoid
Having the developmental sexual characteristics and appearance resembling those of a person who, like a castrate, has failed to mature pubertally.
Eve principle
In fetal life the differentiation of a female always occurs in the absence of fetal testicular secretions (MIS and testosterone), regardless of chromosomal sex. If in the differentiation of a female testosterone is added, differentiation thenceforth proceeds as male.
Excitement phase
The first of the four sexual phases delineated by Masters and Johnson.
Exemplar
A person who becomes a pattern or model for oneself.
Exhibitionism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also known as being a "Peeping Tom". The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger (usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory
Exocrine
Pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for example, tears or saliva, passes.
Exogenous
Produced from without.
Exorcise
To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
Exorcist syndrome
A sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting, stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur in oneself.
Expiation
Atonement; penance.
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Psychology
The scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
Pairbondedness
The proclivity or tendency to form pairbonds; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
Ycleptance
The tendency to name and describe one's environment, and to seek explanation and predictability for events; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
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Eunuchoid
Having the developmental sexual characteristics and appearance resembling those of a person who, like a castrate, has failed to mature pubertally.
Eve principle
In fetal life the differentiation of a female always occurs in the absence of fetal testicular secretions (MIS and testosterone), regardless of chromosomal sex. If in the differentiation of a female testosterone is added, differentiation thenceforth proceeds as male.
Excitement phase
The first of the four sexual phases delineated by Masters and Johnson.
Exemplar
A person who becomes a pattern or model for oneself.
Exhibitionism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also known as being a "Peeping Tom". The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger (usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory
Exocrine
Pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for example, tears or saliva, passes.
Exogenous
Produced from without.
Exorcise
To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
Exorcist syndrome
A sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting, stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur in oneself.
Expiation
Atonement; penance.
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