Abnormal Psychology:
Chapters 1-6. Ronald J.
Comer Exam Questions and
Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
, abnormal pyschology - Correct Answer: the scientific study of mental disorders and their treatment
Norms - Correct Answer: shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations
Culture - Correct Answer: Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
treatment - Correct Answer: A systematic procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more
normal behavior. Also called therapy.
Trephination - Correct Answer: An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a
circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.
Humors - Correct Answer: According to the Greeks and Romans, bodily chemicals that influence mental
and physical functioning
asylum - Correct Answer: A type of institution that first became popular in the sixteenth century to
provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most became virtual prisons.
moral treatment - Correct Answer: a nineteenth-century approach to treating people with mental
dysfunction that emphasized moral guidance and humane and respectful treatment
state hospitals - Correct Answer: State-run public mental institutions in the United States.
Somatogenic perspective - Correct Answer: the view that abnormal functioning has physical causes
psychogenic perspective - Correct Answer: the view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are
psychological
Psychoanalysis - Correct Answer: either the theory or the treatment of abnormal mental functioning
that emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology
Chapters 1-6. Ronald J.
Comer Exam Questions and
Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
, abnormal pyschology - Correct Answer: the scientific study of mental disorders and their treatment
Norms - Correct Answer: shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations
Culture - Correct Answer: Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
treatment - Correct Answer: A systematic procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more
normal behavior. Also called therapy.
Trephination - Correct Answer: An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a
circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.
Humors - Correct Answer: According to the Greeks and Romans, bodily chemicals that influence mental
and physical functioning
asylum - Correct Answer: A type of institution that first became popular in the sixteenth century to
provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most became virtual prisons.
moral treatment - Correct Answer: a nineteenth-century approach to treating people with mental
dysfunction that emphasized moral guidance and humane and respectful treatment
state hospitals - Correct Answer: State-run public mental institutions in the United States.
Somatogenic perspective - Correct Answer: the view that abnormal functioning has physical causes
psychogenic perspective - Correct Answer: the view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are
psychological
Psychoanalysis - Correct Answer: either the theory or the treatment of abnormal mental functioning
that emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology
