Summarize the Existing Debate Within the Clinical Community Concerning Whether

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Essay

Summarize the existing debate within the clinical community concerning whether sexual variations should be classified in the DSM-IV-TRM.Consider the legal, medical, and social implications of including or removing all or some of the paraphilias from the DSM.Outline your position on this subject, providing specific evidence to support your argument.

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Definitions:

Organism's Responding

The manner in which an organism reacts to stimuli or changes in its environment.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus that occurs as a result of conditioning, typically demonstrated in Pavlov’s dog experiment.

Unconditioned Response

A spontaneous, innate response to a trigger that happens without any previous training or conditioning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.