PSYC 202 Lecture Notes - Cyproterone Acetate, Psychosexual Development, Temporal Lobe

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 202
• Professor: Christopher Bowie

Document Summary

Paraphilias are viewed as defensive in nature, protecting the ego from having to deal with repressed fears and memories and representing fixations at pregential stages of psychosexual development. They are seen to be fearful of heterosexual relationship and heterosocial relationships that don"t involve sex. Their sexual development is immature, stunted and inadequate for both social and heterosexual intercourse with the adult world. Paraphilias arise from classical conditioning that by chance has linked sexual arousal with classes of stimuli: this orgasm-conditioning hypothesis has very little empirical support. Most other behavioural/cognitive theories are multidimensional and take childhood sexual abuse and parent- child relationships into consideration. Alcohol and negative affect are often triggers of incidents of pedophilia, voyeurism, and exhibitionism. Cognitive distortions also play a role (they may think that these women like it) Operant conditioning perspective paraphilias are considered an outcome of inadequate social skills or reinforcement of unconventionality by parents or relatives (ex. Praised as a child for wearing mother"s dress)