Psychopathology Comer
Chapters 1-5 Exam Questions
and Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
, abnormal psychology - Correct Answer: study of abnormal behavior in an effort to describe, predict, and
explain abnormal patterns of functioning
Four D's - Correct Answer: Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger
Deviance - Correct Answer: straying from behaviors, thoughts, emotions that differ from society's ideas
about proper functioning
Distress - Correct Answer: according to many clinical theorists, behavior, ideas, or emotions have to
cause distress before they can be labeled abnormal
dysfunction - Correct Answer: abnormal behavior that interferes with daily functioning
danger - Correct Answer: abnormal behavior may be dangerous to oneself or others. Behavior may be
consistently careless, hostile, or confused
Elusive nature - Correct Answer: ultimately society selects general criteria for defining abnormality
Szasz - Correct Answer: he put on emphasis on societies roles that he finds the whole concept of mental
illness to be invalid
Treatment - Correct Answer: clinicians decide if a person is suffering from an abnormality, they seek to
treat it after diagnosis
Jerome Frank's 3 features - Correct Answer: each mental illness has a sufferer seeking a healer, a trained
healer whose expertise is excepted by the sufferer, and a series of contact between them.
30% adults and 19% children - Correct Answer: in any given year__% adults and __% children suffer from
psychological disturbances
trephination - Correct Answer: using a stone tool to make a hole in the skull to let out evil spirits
Chapters 1-5 Exam Questions
and Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
, abnormal psychology - Correct Answer: study of abnormal behavior in an effort to describe, predict, and
explain abnormal patterns of functioning
Four D's - Correct Answer: Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger
Deviance - Correct Answer: straying from behaviors, thoughts, emotions that differ from society's ideas
about proper functioning
Distress - Correct Answer: according to many clinical theorists, behavior, ideas, or emotions have to
cause distress before they can be labeled abnormal
dysfunction - Correct Answer: abnormal behavior that interferes with daily functioning
danger - Correct Answer: abnormal behavior may be dangerous to oneself or others. Behavior may be
consistently careless, hostile, or confused
Elusive nature - Correct Answer: ultimately society selects general criteria for defining abnormality
Szasz - Correct Answer: he put on emphasis on societies roles that he finds the whole concept of mental
illness to be invalid
Treatment - Correct Answer: clinicians decide if a person is suffering from an abnormality, they seek to
treat it after diagnosis
Jerome Frank's 3 features - Correct Answer: each mental illness has a sufferer seeking a healer, a trained
healer whose expertise is excepted by the sufferer, and a series of contact between them.
30% adults and 19% children - Correct Answer: in any given year__% adults and __% children suffer from
psychological disturbances
trephination - Correct Answer: using a stone tool to make a hole in the skull to let out evil spirits
