PSYC203 Lecture Notes - Libido, Sexual Dysfunction, Fetishism
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The roots of behaviour therapy lie in the theories of classical and operant conditioning developed in the early to mid-twentieth century by pavlov ([1927] 1960) and skinner (1953) Behaviour is determined by external events past learning experiences drive present. Behaviour behavioural change can be achieved through direct manipulation of external events; there is no need to explore or change the individual"s psyche" or inner world" the. Principles of learning are subject to scientific exploration and hold across all species: studies in rats inform our understanding of human behaviour. Normal sexual functioning: an absence of dysfunction, significant interpersonal variability and malleability (change- ability) of response over time, significant sociocultural variability in normal sexual functioning. This was used to classify sexual dysfunction. Same problems as the three stage model. The 3 stage model was in dsm 3 and 4 but not 5.