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What makes defining abnormality difficult? - Answer-There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal. What are the elements or criteria to determine abnormality? - Answer-1. Suffering 2. Maladaptiveness - Behavior that interferes with an individual's well-being -Decreases one's ...

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Abnormal Psych Exam 1 (Ch 1-6)
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What makes defining abnormality difficult? - Answer-There is no one behavior that
serves to make someone abnormal.

What are the elements or criteria to determine abnormality? - Answer-1. Suffering

2. Maladaptiveness - Behavior that interferes with an individual's well-being
-Decreases one's ability to enjoy work and relationships
-Influence on others and society

3. Deviancy - Deviation from what is socially acceptable or deemed normal
-Involves value judgments
-Can involve statistically rare and undesirable behavior such as mental retardation

4. Violation of the Standards of Society - All cultures have rules
-Violation of the standards of society
-Include both social and moral rules
-Laws

5. Social Discomfort - Those around him or her may experience a sense of discomfort
or unease

6. Irrationality and Unpredictability- Behavior that is unpredictable and makes no sense
-Evaluation of whether or not a person can control his or her behavior

Brett persistently injects himself with pain killers. This has greatly increased his chance
of overdosing and dying. His behavior harms no one else. According to the DSM, is
Brett's behavior consistent with the definition of a mental disorder? - Answer-Yes,
because he is persistently acting in a way that harms himself. Within the DSM, a mental
disorder is conceptualized as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological
syndrome that is associated with distress or disability.

According to the DSM, When is deviant behavior viewed as indicative of a mental
disorder? - Answer-When it is a symptom of a dysfunction in the individual.

What is the utility of DSM-5? - Answer-

Which concept provides psychologists with a consistent naming system that can be
used to organize and identify information in a helpful manner? - Answer-Classification

, Which of the following is a disadvantage of having a classification system for mental
disorders? - Answer-When a label is used to describe an individual's behavior,
information about the person is lost

Maria believes that her dead grandmother occasionally speaks to her. In deciding if
Maria has a mental illness or not, which of the following should first be evaluated? -
Answer-Is Maria's belief consistent with the beliefs of her culture?

What is epidemiology? - Answer-The study of the distribution of a disorder in a
population

What is the most prevalent psychological disorder among adults in the US? - Answer-
Anxiety Disorder

Why is it important to have some understanding of what causes psychological disorder?
- Answer-the selection of a treatment approach is largely determined by assumptions of
causality

Why is it dangerous to make conclusions based on case studies - Answer-Conclusions
based on so little data are likely to be flawed.

Why is a representative sample desirable? - Answer-The more representative a sample
is, the more generalizable the data.

what is a good control group for a research study on people with eating disorders? -
Answer-A group that is comparable to those with eating disorders except that they eat
normally.

Early writings show that the Chinese, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Greeks often attributed
abnormal behavior to ________ - Answer-demonic possession.

Hippocrates doctrine of the four humors was meant to explain what? - Answer-was an
explanation for personality traits.

What is Galen credited with? - Answer-Recognizing that psychological disorders could
have both biological and psychological causes

The approaches to treatment of the mentally ill during the Middle Ages in Europe are
best characterized as - Answer-superstitious.

Johann Weyer, in the early 1500s provided what to help understand abnormal
behavior? - Answer-wrote a book that was condemned by many, arguing that many
witches were actually mentally ill.

If you visited an asylum in the 16th Century in Europe you would likely find - Answer-
mentally ill people living in conditions of filth and cruelty.

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