PSYB32H3 Lecture : Abnormal Psychology Lecture 1.docx
9 Jul 2013
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Story about how he met this girl in high school and how he got a lot of physiological signs such as an erection, heart racing. Then she wanted to go to uni just like her and ended up going and taking psychology. He got his flunking mark bumped up by doing research. In abnormal psychology, how does one"s brain work in one area, but not in the other. Study understand, asses and treat people with different abnormalities. Impairment , dysfunction vs disability (disability causes abnormal behvaiour) it must affect their daily living behavior: unexpectedness stress and disability of behavior are unexpected. Nick was a single 26 year old grocery clerk who complained about shit and referred to mental health clinic. When he was experiencing low sexual behavior, he took the feces of attractive males in bathrooms and took it home. Warm feces in bag of boiling water and play with it which sexually excites him til he orgasms.
