Fundamentals of Abnormal
Psychology,Comer,8e
Abnormal Psychology - Correct Answer--✔✔Study of abnormal behavior in an effort to describe,
predict, explain and change abnormal patterns.
Four Ds - Correct Answer--✔✔Distress, disfunction, deviance and dangerous
Deviance - Correct Answer--✔✔Acting different than acceptable social norms and behaviors
Distress - Correct Answer--✔✔Anxious behavior, ideas of emotions
Danger - Correct Answer--✔✔Danger from oneself to others
Dysfunction - Correct Answer--✔✔When abnormal behavior tends to interfere with daily functioning.
Culture is important
Eccentricity - Correct Answer--✔✔Nonconforming, creative, trendsetting, or could be deviant. It
depends on the setting.
Hippocrates believed and taught that illnesses had natural causes - Correct Answer--✔✔500 B.C. to
500 A.D.
, Church rejected scientific forms of investigation. Religious beliefs dominated all aspects of life.
Abnormality seen as good vs. evil. Demonology loses favor at end of middle ages - Correct Answer--
✔✔500-1350 A.D.
Johann Weyer believed mind was as susceptible to sickness as the body. Care continued to improve -
Correct Answer--✔✔1400-1700A.D.
Shrines - Correct Answer--✔✔Religious things across europe that were devoted to loving treatment of
people with disorders
Asylum - Correct Answer--✔✔Where the mentally ill would go. One building, almost prison like
Treatment of people w/ mental disorders began to improve. Reversal of moral treatment movement -
Correct Answer--✔✔1800ish
Somatogenic Perspective - Correct Answer--✔✔Abnormal functioning has physical causes. Emerged
from new biological discoveries
Psychogenic Perspective - Correct Answer--✔✔Abnormal functioning has psychological causes
Hypnotism - Correct Answer--✔✔Treatment by Mesmer and Bruer. Can create false memories as they
uncovering real ones
Psychoanalysis - Correct Answer--✔✔Freud, unconscious psychological processes