Briefly list and define the four factors discussed in your text that are the immediate psychological causes of sexual disorders.
What will be an ideal response?
The four factors identified as immediate psychological causes of sexual disorders are: (1) anxieties such as fear of failure, (2) cognitive interference, (3) failure of the partners to communicate, and (4) failure to engage in effective, sexually stimulating behavior.
Anxiety: Anxieties may be caused by fear of failure-that is, fear of being unable to perform. Often anxiety can create a vicious cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy in which fear of failure produces a failure, which produces more fear, which produces another failure, and so on.
Cognitive interference refers to thoughts that distract the person from focusing on the erotic experience.
Failure to communicate is one of the most important immediate causes of sexual disorders. A failure to engage in effective sexually stimulating behavior is another immediate psychological cause of sexual disorders. This is often a result of ignorance and such cases can be resolved by simple educational techniques.
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