Disorder as Learning of Aberrant Behaviour Flashcards
If someone behaves in a way departs from accepted behaviour, then the behaviour is said to be:
Aberrant
The scientific method helps us directly observe the causal factors of disordered behaviour. True or false?
False
One challenge to defining disorder is that the term may be used to exert political or cultural control over others. An example of this, once used against slaves, might be:
Draptomania
A challenge to defining disorder is that a u____ or u____ definition may not be possible:
Unified; universal
If someone has a fetish, they are experiencing ____ behaviour:
Aberrant
A form of sexual desire where gratification is only possible with non-sexual objects or body parts is called a:
Fetish
Paraphilia requires anomalous _____ or _____ in order to satisfy sexual fetishism:
Activities; targets
A ______ occurs when deviation from accepted behaviour results in potential harm towards either the individual themselves or others:
Paraphilia
A ____ is a type of fetish that requires some sort of act or object in order to reach gratification:
Paraphilia
_____ _____ are acts used to achieve arousal from a paraphilia:
Anomalous activities
_____ ____ are people or things use to achieve arousal from a paraphilia:
Anomalous targets
Voyeurism, frotteurism and exhibitionism are paraphilias that require:
Anomalous activities
Pedophilia and fetishism are paraphilias that require:
Anomalous targets
_____ is a statistical term:
Normative
_____ is a value term:
Normal
_____ conditioning explains that aberrant behaviour is learned through reinforcement and punishment:
Operant
_____ conditioning explains that aberrant behaviour is learned through associations between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned response:
Classical
Stimuli that tells us a reward is available are called:
Discriminative stimuli
If Malcolm finds that teenage boys’ feet no longer arouse him, then according to the operant conditioning theory, what event has occurred?
Extinction
In the “Malcolm” roleplay during lecture 2, according to the operant conditioning theory, the discriminative stimuli was ____ and the reward was ____:
Boredom; orgasm
A fetish often occurs concurrently with other fetishes. True or false?
True
One problem with relying on extinction to resolve a fetish is that:
Other fetishes won’t necessarily be resolved
_____ analysis may be used to help patients resolve a fetish or fetishes:
Functional
If Steve, who has a car fetish, asks himself whether other people might find his behaviour disgusting in order to resolve it, then he is partaking in:
Functional analysis
What disorder was used to explain how aberrant behaviour can be learned in lecture 2?
Fetishism
