correct answers
abnormal - ANS ✔✔problems in thought, feelings, and behavior vary from normal to abnormal
- no clear dividing line exists between normal variation
Key determinants of abnormality - ANS ✔✔difficult to determine when behaviors, thoughts and
feelings become unusual, distressing, functionally impairing, or dangerous
abnormal psychology - ANS ✔✔the study of people who experience: mental, emotional, and
physical pain.
psychopathology - ANS ✔✔scientific study of the mental disorders or mental illness
cultural relativism - ANS ✔✔there are no universal standards or rules for labeling a behavior as
abnormal
Four D's of Abnormality - ANS ✔✔dysfunction, distress, deviance, and dangerousness
Dysfunction - ANS ✔✔interfere with a persons ability to function in their daily life
distress - ANS ✔✔cause emotional or physical pain
deviance - ANS ✔✔outside cultural norms
dangerousness - ANS ✔✔can harm self or others