AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1966, William Masters and Virginia Johnson proposed a four-stage “linear” model of human sexual response based on some 10, 000 recordings of changes in participants’ physiology. From these data, they identified four successive (hence, linear) stages: (1) excitement, (2) plateau, (3) orgasm, and (4) resolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -What Are the Phases of the Sexual Response Cycle? The sexual response cycle has four phases: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. Both men and women experience these phases, although the timing usually is different.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phase 4: Resolution The last phase in the Masters and Johnson’s Sexual Response Cycle is marked with a return to normal (i.e., pre-excitement) conditions. As such, blood pressure and heart rate decrease as the body eases up and genitalia start to revert back to the normal conditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the Masters and Johnson technique, a sex history is first taken and the couple given physical examinations to rule out physical problems. Therapists then employ exercises focusing on the giving and receiving of sensual, but not necessarily sexual, pleasure to help the couple overcome anxieties about sex.

Detailed explanation-5: -A: The four phases proposed by Masters and Johnson in their model of the human sexual response cycle are excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.