Summation of arousal in partial fetishism.
A summation model of classical conditioning was used to describe the deviant sexual arousal pattern of a male psychiatric patient. Penile assessment showed a response to a compound stimulus (radio static plus a picture of a woman) that was approximately equal to the sum of the responses to each component alone. The subject's self-report of sexual arousal followed a similar pattern. A distinction was made between total and partial fetishism. It was suggested that what may be particularly troublesome in partial fetishism is the potential for high levels of summated arousal.
Junginger
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Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5501.
D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D005329:Fetishism, Psychiatric / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008418:Masturbation; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment