PSYB32H3 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
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When people start diagnosing themselves with every disorder as they learn about it. Digit span test what is your working memory like. Mental sketchpad the professor starts to test the students" memory by asking them to repeat the numbers after him. Therefore we can define abnormality through statistical infrequency if someone got less than 2 would be considered statistical infrequency. Yet, this alone does not determine abnormality it"s useful but not enough! Case study of a man who became sexually frustrated that he started to go to men"s toilet and retrieve feces in a plastic bag. Warms the feces and plays with it in the water which sexually excites him. Masturbates to orgasm occurs once a month. He would be diagnosed with fetish non human object that arouses him. However, there are abnormalities where people don"t feel personal distress at all. Whether or not the symptoms impairs the individual"s normal functioning.
