PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Tan-Tan, Ct Scan

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It"s very important to use our mental sketchpad throughout our life: there are certain patients who have no mental capacity/no mental sketchpad, statistical infrequency: one way we define abnormality. We of course cannot diagnose him with a brain disorder just based off of that-digit span test is therefore an incomplete explanation for how we should be defining abnormality. Not enough. : violation of norms, personal distress, disability vs. disfunction, unexpectedness: : i personally think that because nick is playing with the feces and masturbating after the sexual arousal he achieves post-playing is definitely a violation of the social and cultural norms set into place in our society. Nick himself also admits that he feels this is not socially acceptable, and feels rather distressed over his situation. There is an unexpectedness, but let"s deconstruct the behaviour. Nick would be diagnosed with a fetish= when an individual is able to complete the sexual cycle through an inanimate object (arousal completion).

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