PSY 352 FINAL PAPER 2026 TEST BANK
SOLVED QUESTIONS
◉ What perspective is used today to explain abnormal behavior?
Answer: Bio-Psycho-Social model - come together in the perfect storm
◉ Biological Contributions to abnormal behavior? Answer: - genetic
predisposition, injury, imbalanced brain chemistry
◉ Psychological contributions to abnormal behavior? Answer: trouble
regulating emotion, attachment failures, distorted thinking
◉ Soical and cultural contributions to abnormal behavior? Answer:
conflict in family, social isolation,discrimination and poverty
◉ Necessary cause Answer: must be present for the disorder to occur,
without it there is no disorder, it is the ONLY cause
◉ sufficient cause Answer: on its own can produce the outcome, but no
necessary because other causes can exist
,◉ contributing cause (risk factor) Answer: sets the stage for the
outcome but isn't necessary or sufficient - simply increases the
possibitliy that a disorder will occur
◉ distal causes Answer: distance. lies dormant -- doesn't show un til
years later
◉ proximal causes Answer: immediate affects -- triggers a disorder
◉ distal risk factors Answer: family (marital discord, parental
overcontrol)
community(poverty, bad schools, rejection)
individual(childhood head injury, self control)
◉ diathesis-stress model Answer: diathesis- distal contributory cause
stress- proximal cause response
together they cause the disorder
◉ interactive model Answer: diathesis and stress have to interact with
each-other
some amount of diathese must be present for the stress to have an affect.
if both are no there, no disoder
◉ additive model Answer: diathesis and tress "add up"
, could be one of the other is the level is high enough, but easier if both
are present
◉ resilience Answer: ability to successfully adapt to difficult situations
"how you react when the odds are against you"
◉ protective factors Answer: influences that modify a person's
response to stress and decrease the affect of stressful stimuli
◉ Melinda and Tracy Answer: -identical twins whose parents were
killed in a car accident(mom and gma- depressive history)
-adopted to two different families
-Melinda:good loving support
tracy- divorced
m&t both divorced at 27. m=ok, t=depressed
m- had protective factors that taught her coping
same diathesis, and stress- different resilience
◉ example of protective factors Answer: family(parents, money)
community(good school,friends)
individual(good skills)
SOLVED QUESTIONS
◉ What perspective is used today to explain abnormal behavior?
Answer: Bio-Psycho-Social model - come together in the perfect storm
◉ Biological Contributions to abnormal behavior? Answer: - genetic
predisposition, injury, imbalanced brain chemistry
◉ Psychological contributions to abnormal behavior? Answer: trouble
regulating emotion, attachment failures, distorted thinking
◉ Soical and cultural contributions to abnormal behavior? Answer:
conflict in family, social isolation,discrimination and poverty
◉ Necessary cause Answer: must be present for the disorder to occur,
without it there is no disorder, it is the ONLY cause
◉ sufficient cause Answer: on its own can produce the outcome, but no
necessary because other causes can exist
,◉ contributing cause (risk factor) Answer: sets the stage for the
outcome but isn't necessary or sufficient - simply increases the
possibitliy that a disorder will occur
◉ distal causes Answer: distance. lies dormant -- doesn't show un til
years later
◉ proximal causes Answer: immediate affects -- triggers a disorder
◉ distal risk factors Answer: family (marital discord, parental
overcontrol)
community(poverty, bad schools, rejection)
individual(childhood head injury, self control)
◉ diathesis-stress model Answer: diathesis- distal contributory cause
stress- proximal cause response
together they cause the disorder
◉ interactive model Answer: diathesis and stress have to interact with
each-other
some amount of diathese must be present for the stress to have an affect.
if both are no there, no disoder
◉ additive model Answer: diathesis and tress "add up"
, could be one of the other is the level is high enough, but easier if both
are present
◉ resilience Answer: ability to successfully adapt to difficult situations
"how you react when the odds are against you"
◉ protective factors Answer: influences that modify a person's
response to stress and decrease the affect of stressful stimuli
◉ Melinda and Tracy Answer: -identical twins whose parents were
killed in a car accident(mom and gma- depressive history)
-adopted to two different families
-Melinda:good loving support
tracy- divorced
m&t both divorced at 27. m=ok, t=depressed
m- had protective factors that taught her coping
same diathesis, and stress- different resilience
◉ example of protective factors Answer: family(parents, money)
community(good school,friends)
individual(good skills)
