PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Behavioral Addiction, Hypersexuality, Online Game

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 325
• Professor: Naomi Koerner

Document Summary

Unconscious conflicts between primitive desires and constraints give rise to psychopathology. Symptoms of mental disorders due to reinforcements and punishments for specific behaviors and feelings. People"s (cid:449)a(cid:455)s of i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)eti(cid:374)g situatio(cid:374)s, thei(cid:396) assu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out the world and self-concepts can cause negative feelings/behavior. Conform to demands of others instead of pursuing own values and potentials. Behavioral theories: any muscular, glandular, or electrical activity of an organism is a behavior, e. g. sweating, speaking, eating, running, thinking, worrying, learning occurs through, classical (pavlovian) conditioning, operant conditioning. Indirect pathways: both voluntary and involuntary behaviors are subject to conditioning. Example of a fear hierarchy for flying phobia: the plane has landed and stopped at the terminal. The agent gives me the times and flight numbers: the plane has taken off from the airport and banks as it changes direction. I am aware of the tilt: the plane starts down the runway and the motors get louder as the plane increases speed and suddenly lifts off.