Disorder as Learning of Aberrant Behaviour

Question 1

If someone behaves in a way departs from accepted behaviour, then the behaviour is said to be:

Answer 1

Aberrant

Question 2

The scientific method helps us directly observe the causal factors of disordered behaviour. True or false?

Answer 2

False

Question 3

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:

Answer 3

Draptomania

Question 4

A challenge to defining disorder is that a u____ or u____ definition may not be possible:

Answer 4

Unified; universal

Question 5

If someone has a fetish, they are experiencing ____ behaviour:

Answer 5

Aberrant

Question 6

A form of sexual desire where gratification is only possible with non-sexual objects or body parts is called a:

Answer 6

Fetish

Question 7

Paraphilia requires anomalous _____ or _____ in order to satisfy sexual fetishism:

Answer 7

Activities; targets

Question 8

A ______ occurs when deviation from accepted behaviour results in potential harm towards either the individual themselves or others:

Answer 8

Paraphilia

Question 9

A ____ is a type of fetish that requires some sort of act or object in order to reach gratification:

Answer 9

Paraphilia

Question 10

_____ _____ are acts used to achieve arousal from a paraphilia:

Answer 10

Anomalous activities

Question 11

_____ ____ are people or things use to achieve arousal from a paraphilia:

Answer 11

Anomalous targets

Question 12

Voyeurism, frotteurism and exhibitionism are paraphilias that require:

Answer 12

Anomalous activities

Question 13

Pedophilia and fetishism are paraphilias that require:

Answer 13

Anomalous targets

Question 14

_____ is a statistical term:

Answer 14

Normative

Question 15

_____ is a value term:

Answer 15

Normal

Question 16

_____ conditioning explains that aberrant behaviour is learned through reinforcement and punishment:

Answer 16

Operant

Question 17

_____ conditioning explains that aberrant behaviour is learned through associations between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned response:

Answer 17

Classical

Question 18

Stimuli that tells us a reward is available are called:

Answer 18

Discriminative stimuli

Question 19

If Malcolm finds that teenage boys’ feet no longer arouse him, then according to the operant conditioning theory, what event has occurred?

Answer 19

Extinction

Question 20

In the “Malcolm” roleplay during lecture 2, according to the operant conditioning theory, the discriminative stimuli was ____ and the reward was ____:

Answer 20

Boredom; orgasm

Question 21

A fetish often occurs concurrently with other fetishes. True or false?

Answer 21

True

Question 22

One problem with relying on extinction to resolve a fetish is that:

Answer 22

Other fetishes won’t necessarily be resolved

Question 23

_____ analysis may be used to help patients resolve a fetish or fetishes:

Answer 23

Functional

Question 24

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:

Answer 24

Functional analysis

Question 25

What disorder was used to explain how aberrant behaviour can be learned in lecture 2?

Answer 25

Fetishism