ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM SCRIPT
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● phobia
Answer: An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and
avoidance of a specific object or situation.
●● Psychological Dysfunction
Answer: Breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning
●● Just having a dysfunction is not enough to meet the criteria for
psychological disorder.
Answer: for this reason, these problems are often considered to be on a
continuum or a dimension rather than to be categories that are present or
absent.
●● atypical
Answer: not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal
●● DSM
Answer: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - contains the current listing
of criteria for psychological disorders
,●● Abnormal
Answer: describes behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunctions
that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present
distress and impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering,
death, pain, or impairment
●● prototype
Answer: a typical profile. a pt may have only some features or
symptoms of the disorder (minimum number) and still meet criteria for
the disorder because his or her set of symptoms is close to the prototype.
●● Psychopathology
Answer: the scientific study of psychological disorders
●● counseling psychologists
Answer: tend to study and treat adjustment and vocational issues
encountered by relatively healthy individuals
●● clinical psychologists
Answer: usually concentrate on more severe psychological disorders
●● Functions of Mental Health Practitioners
Answer: 1. Consumers of the science of psychopathology. That is that
they keep up with recent developments which benefits their patients.
, 2. Evaluators of own assessments or treatment procedures to see whether
they work.
3. Research. This research attempts to:
a. describe psychological disorders
b. determine causes
c. treatment
●● Presenting problem
Answer: why the person came to the clinic
●● Clinical description
Answer: represents the unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and
feelings that make up a specific disorder.
●● Clinical
Answer: refers to both types of problems and disorders that would be
found in a clinic or hospital and to be the activities connected with
assessment and treatment
●● Prevalence
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● phobia
Answer: An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and
avoidance of a specific object or situation.
●● Psychological Dysfunction
Answer: Breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning
●● Just having a dysfunction is not enough to meet the criteria for
psychological disorder.
Answer: for this reason, these problems are often considered to be on a
continuum or a dimension rather than to be categories that are present or
absent.
●● atypical
Answer: not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal
●● DSM
Answer: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - contains the current listing
of criteria for psychological disorders
,●● Abnormal
Answer: describes behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunctions
that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present
distress and impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering,
death, pain, or impairment
●● prototype
Answer: a typical profile. a pt may have only some features or
symptoms of the disorder (minimum number) and still meet criteria for
the disorder because his or her set of symptoms is close to the prototype.
●● Psychopathology
Answer: the scientific study of psychological disorders
●● counseling psychologists
Answer: tend to study and treat adjustment and vocational issues
encountered by relatively healthy individuals
●● clinical psychologists
Answer: usually concentrate on more severe psychological disorders
●● Functions of Mental Health Practitioners
Answer: 1. Consumers of the science of psychopathology. That is that
they keep up with recent developments which benefits their patients.
, 2. Evaluators of own assessments or treatment procedures to see whether
they work.
3. Research. This research attempts to:
a. describe psychological disorders
b. determine causes
c. treatment
●● Presenting problem
Answer: why the person came to the clinic
●● Clinical description
Answer: represents the unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and
feelings that make up a specific disorder.
●● Clinical
Answer: refers to both types of problems and disorders that would be
found in a clinic or hospital and to be the activities connected with
assessment and treatment
●● Prevalence
